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42-8513 Eager Beaver

Shot down on the 14 October 1943 escort mission to Schweinfurt. Pilot Dwight Fry managed to evade with the help of the Belgian COMET evasion network - www.evasioncomete.be

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Units served with

350th Fighter Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

353rd Fighter Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

People

Dwight Allen Fry

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 350th Fighter Squadron
Service Numbers: 19061215 and O-732214
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Places

Personnel of the 491st Bomb Group with ground support vehicles, including trucks, ambulances and a Cletrac wait in front of the control tower at Metfield for returning B-24 Liberators. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Waiting for mission return, probably Metfield, Nov.'

Metfield

Site type: Airfield

Missions

VIII Fighter Command FO-156

Date: 14 October 1943

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Other Failed to Return (FTR)	Budel, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlands	14 October 1943	Shot down by Fw190, crashed near Budel (NL), near the Belgian border

Event

Location

Date

Description

Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

Budel, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlands

14 October 1943

Shot down by Fw190, crashed near Budel (NL), near the Belgian border

Revisions

Date2 Dec 2022 14:44:23

ContributorED-BB

Changes

Sources

Updated website address

Date8 Apr 2015 13:25:43

ContributorED-BB

Changes

Sources

NARA WWII Enlistment records
MACR 904
Escape & Evasion report E&E 360
Research for the www.evasioncomete.org website

Date27 Sep 2014 18:41:07

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

MACR 904 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database