Brooks J Liles
Military
National Archives
Object Number - UPL 54350
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Prague on 3 Mar 45 in P-51 'Sweet Marie II' #44-14175
He continued his service post war as a first day cover was offered for sale on Amazon with the following description: 'US Air Force pilot Brooks Liles, who had downed one enemy plane in World War II, earned ace status in Korea, downing 4 MIG 15s in his F-86 Sabre jet. In the 1990s, he served on a joint US-Russian commission to exchange information about each other's missing pilots from the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.'
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Cherry
- Unit: 55th Fighter Group 343rd Fighter Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Wilders, North Carolina | 5 December 1940 | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
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Other Unknown |
Germany | 3 March 1945 |
Revisions
http://www.amazon.com/LT-COLONEL-BROOKS-J-LILES/dp/B00JBNCWLC
Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler's Reich, by Robert F. Dorr
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KfmQ2lrRapcC&pg=PA262&lpg=PA262&dq=…
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12898 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
