Russell B Westfall

Military

10/14/43 crash landed in UK. RTD

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Units served with

Aircraft

A P-47 Thunderbolts of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group prepare for take off. Handwritten on slide:"63FS t/o Boxted AFA/Brown"
  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Anamosa II
  • Unit: 56th Fighter Group 63rd Fighter Squadron

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Crashed

14 October 1943

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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- - AccidentReports.com;
- Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop & Hey p. 342;
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia;
- www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/personnel.htm

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Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list