Vernon Arlie Burroughs

Military
Pilot Lieutenant Vernon A. Burroughs climbs into his P-47 of the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group. Image stamped on reverse: "For Personal Use Only" media-377133.jpg FRE 435 Pilot Lieutenant Vernon A. Burroughs climbs into his P-47 of the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group. Image stamped on reverse: "For Personal Use Only" Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 435 - Pilot Lieutenant Vernon A. Burroughs climbs into his P-47 of the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group. Image stamped on reverse: "For Personal...

Assigned to 357FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to return from strafing mission to St Dizier A/D, P-51D 'Ill Wind' 43-6636 hit by return fire from ground, crashed on 9-May-44 near Rilly Ste Syre, Lt Vernon A Burroughs baled out. POW. MACR 4682.

Killed in a crash in Texas in P-51H 44-64409, while serving with the 312th A.A.F. Base Unit HQ Squadron from March Army Airfield in California. 18-Sep-46.

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Units served with

Aircraft

42-8438

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Dizzy Miss/Mortician's Delight
  • Unit: 355th Fighter Group 365th Fighter Group 357th Fighter Squadron 387th Fighter Squadron
Capt. Nicholas Megura of the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, in cockpit, at Debden air base, 8 March 1944. Caption on reverse: Pilots of the P-51s. Lt.Col. Donald J. M. Blakeslee's Mustang Group. Associated Press photo shows: Lt. Nicholas Megura, aged 24, of 108 Broad Street, Ansonia, Conn., has been on first two raids over Berlin and shot down two planes each time. WOR265648. 8344EM. Stamp (Passed for publication - General Section, Press & Censorship Bureau, 9 March 1944)

43-6636

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Ill Wind?
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron

43-6722

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Dizzy Miss
  • Unit: 355th Fighter Group 357th Fighter Group

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Champaign, IL, USA 5 July 1921

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Zagan, Poland 9 May 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III.

Other

Shot down

Rilly-Sainte-Syre, France 9 May 1944 Failed to return from strafing mission to St Dizier A/D, P-51D 'Ill Wind' 43-6636 hit by return fire from ground, crashed on 9-May-44 near Rilly Ste Syre, Lt Vernon A Burroughs baled out. POW. MACR 4682.

Died

Donnelly Ave, Fort Worth, TX, USA 18 September 1946 Killed in a crash in Texas in P-51H 44-64409, while serving with the 312th A.A.F. Base Unit HQ Squadron from March Army Airfield in California.

Buried

Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Los Angeles County CA 23 September 1946 Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Los Angeles County California, USA.
Los Angeles, California, USA

Revisions

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XFG>355FG http://www.cieldegloire.com/fg_355.php

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https://www.fold3.com/image/29036119
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbasn.asp?SN=44-64409&Submit4=Go
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=BURROUGHS&GSfn=Ve…;

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4682 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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