Donald A Bath
MilitaryAssigned to 84FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Lost in training flight accident 1 miles from Hill Farm, Tillingham 8-Mar-45. Pilot Lt Donald A Bath Killed in Flying Accident (KIFA).
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: "Duckpond"
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Upper Darby, PA, USA | 28 May 1922 | |
Other Crashed |
Allen C. Perkinson Blackstone Army Airfield (BKT), Dominy Corner Road, Blackstone, VA 23824, USA | 16 June 1944 | Landing Accident Blackstone AAB, VA Cat 3 damage Lt Donald A Bath, 16-Jun-44. P-47D 42-74727 - 131BU. |
Based |
Duxford | 10 November 1944 - 7 March 1945 | Assigned to 84FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Died Killed in a Flying Accident (KIFA) |
Tillingham, Southminster CM0, UK | 8 March 1945 | Lost in training flight accident 1 miles from Hill Farm, Tillingham 8-Mar-45. Pilot Lt Donald A Bath Killed in Flying Accident (KIFA). |
Buried |
8 March 1945 | Interred Cambridge American Cemetery. | |
Drexel Hill, Upper Darby, PA, USA | |||
Buried |
Re-Interred Arlington National Cemetery Arlington County Virginia, USA. | ||
Enlisted |
Delaware County, PA, USA |
Revisions
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Duxford Diary / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list