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Take Off Accident - RAF Watton, 27/8/44 - Minor damage - 1st Lt Otto E Kaellner (pilot). Landing Accident - RAF Watton, 7/12/44 - Minor damage - John M Carter (pilot). Landing Accident - RAF Watton, 5/5/45 - Cat 3 Damage - Lyndon F Lakeman (Pilot). Struck Off Charge 04/9/47.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-?
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 305th Bomb Group 366th Bomb Squadron 654th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-801992
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11083425 / O-?
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Manufactured |
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK | 24 March 1944 | Hatfield Built, contract number 555/C.23(a), between 24-3-1944 and 31-12-1944. |
Crashed |
Watton, Thetford, Norfolk IP25, UK | 27 August 1944 | Minor damage - Take Off Accident - RAF Watton - Otto E Kaellner (pilot). |
Crashed |
Watton, Thetford, Norfolk IP25, UK | 7 December 1944 | Minor damage - Landing Accident - RAF Watton -John M Carter (pilot). |
Crashed |
Watton, Thetford, Norfolk IP25, UK | 5 May 1945 | Cat 3 Damage - Landing Accident - RAF Watton - Lyndon F Lakeman (Pilot). |
Other Struck Off Charge |
4 September 1947 | Struck Off Charge 04/09/1947. |
Revisions
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Moved information added by user Wattonman from biography to source message.
A photograph of the 7 December 1944 accident is on page 147, Norman Malayney, " The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII", Schiffer Publishers, 2011.
Norman Malayney, " The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII", Schiffer Publishers, 2011.
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