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2nd Lt. John "Jack" D. Heagney Jr.
Group
The 495th Fighter Training Group, which operated in England from December 1943, trained P-47 Thunderbolt pilots. These pilots, who had received the basic training in the USA would be assigned to a training group to practise ETO operational procedures...
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | pilot
Pilot P-47 Thunderbolt 41-6233. Mid Air Collision in P-47 41-6233 with P-47 42-74640, pilot 2nd Lt John D Heagney, Tibberton Green Farm, Tibberton, KIA. 23-9-44.
P-47 Thunderbolt
Crashed near Podington for unknown reasons while on a local gun camera flight on 13 Mar 1944.
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| 10 January 2018 00:52:27 | PalmettoPilot | Created entry with collection, caption, unit associations, person associations and aircraft associations |
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This was my uncle. |
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