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P-51 Mustang
![Lt. Walter [NMI] Baron,[ N. Grosvenor Dale, CT], 364th Fighter Squadron. P-51B 42-106854 C5-B “Peabody’s Pet”. This a/c became lost on 25 August 1944 when Lt. Baron became interned in Sweden. Lt Walter Baron on the wing and Crew Chief Dick Eagan standing.](https://www.americanairmuseum.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/media/media-23636.jpeg?itok=Qbl9NEuu)
Lt. Walter [NMI] Baron,[ N. Grosvenor Dale, CT], 364th Fighter Squadron. P-51B 42-106854 C5-B “Peabody’s Pet”. This a/c became lost on 25 August 1944 when Lt. Baron became interned in Sweden. Lt Walter Baron on the wing and Crew Chief Dick Eagan standing.
North American P-51B 42-106854 "Peabody's Pet" C5-B [Lt Walter Baron] on its belly in the foreground with P-51D 44-13345 'Mary Ann' C5-I bar [Lt Charles Burtner] in the background. Lt Baron's engine started running rough on an escort mission to Rechlin, Gemany. Lt Burtner whose radio was U/S escorted Lt Baron to Lumma, Sweden, where they and their aircraft were interned.
![North American P-51D-5-NA Mustang CF-I [Bar]](https://www.americanairmuseum.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/media/media-29589.jpeg?itok=dn7SYjsD)
North American P-51D-5-NA Mustang CF-I [Bar] "Mary Ann" - 44-13345 Force Landed Sweden 1944. In the background sits 42-106854 on her belly.
Assigned 376FS, 361FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. Personal aircraft of Lt Walter Baron. Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Rechlin, Gemany. Aborted near Rostock with engine running roughly and made for Sweden. Interned in Sweden. Pilot Lt Walter Baron. 25-Aug-44. MACR 7948. Aircraft scrapped in 1945.
Group
The 357th Fighter Group was the first P-51 Mustang Group in the Eighth Air Force, training with them from November 1943 at Raydon, England and entering combat with them in the February of the following year from their new base at Leiston. The Group was...
Group
The 361st Fighter Group was the last P-47 Thunderbolt Group to join the Eighth Air Force. Between 21 January 1944 and 20 April 1945, the Group flew 441 missions, the majority in an escort role in support of bombers flying over occupied Europe. The...
Squadron
Squadron
Military | Captain | Fighter Pilot | 357th Fighter Group
Assigned to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Rechlin, Germany in P-51 42-106854 'Peabody's Pet'. Aborted near Rostock with engine running roughly and made for Sweden. Interned in Sweden. 25-Aug-44. MACR 7948.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 361st Fighter Group
Military site : airfield
The P-47 Thunderbolts of the 361st Fighter Group damaged the surfaces of the airfield so much in the first months of flying from Bottisham that American engineers were called in to lay a new runway. In January 1944 they constructed a 1,470-yard-long...
Military site : airfield
Leiston's location only three miles from the North Sea Coast made it ideal as a Fighter Group air base whose job would be to escort bombers across the sea and over occupied Europe. The air base also witnessed the arrival of many very damaged Allied...
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| Manufactured | Inglewood, CA, USA | 1944 |
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Built at North American. |
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| Delivered | California, USA | 1944 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Bottisham, Cambridge CB25, UK | 1944 |
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Assigned 376FS, 361FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | Stratford, London, UK | 21 June 1944 |
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Take Off Accident due to Engine Failure Parkgate Farm, nr Stratford Cat 5 damage, Lt Will T Butts, 21-Jun-44. 376FS 361FG 8AF. |
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| Transferred | Leiston IP16, UK | July 1944 |
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Transferred to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Interned Sweden | Lomma, Sweden | 25 August 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Rechlin, Gemany. Aborted near Rostock with engine running roughly and made for Sweden. Interned in Sweden. Pilot Lt Walter Baron. 25-Aug-44. MACR 7948. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 September 2016 12:45:21 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-106854 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:14 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 7948 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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