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Lieutenant Colonel Clarence E. " Bud" Anderson Jr., Captain in the 357th Fighter Group. Post war portrait. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Lt. Col. Clarence E. Anderson Jr.'
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The 357th Fighter Group was the first P-51 Mustang Group in the Eighth Air Force, training with them from November 1943 at Raydon, England and entering combat with them in the February of the following year from their new base at Leiston. The Group was...
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Military | Colonel | Fighter Pilot-1055 single engine
Clarence "Bud" Anderson enlisted shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. He earned his pilots wing in September 1942 and joined the 357th Fighter Group a year later. In late 1943, Anderson and the 357th arrived in Europe, where they quickly...