Carl Gies
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Fighter Pilot/Operations Officer/FAC | 354th Fighter Group
Shot down 2 Zeros in the Philippines with the 20th PS.
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Military
USN 1939-1941 flew F3Fs with VF-6 USS Enterprise CV-6
AVG Flying Tigers 2nd Pursuit Squadron P-40Bs 1941-42
AAF 329th FG P-38 instructor
AAF 356th FS commander P-39s and P-51Bs
AAF 354th FG commander P-51Bs
2.33 air kills with AVG + 6 air kills with 354th FG
Brig. General USAFR retired
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Fighter Pilot/Operations Officer/FAC | 354th Fighter Group
Shot down 2 Zeros in the Philippines with the 20th PS.
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Group
The Group moved to England in the autumn of 1943 and was assigned to the Ninth Air Force in December 1943. The Group were the first to fly P-51 Mustangs operationally and in their bomber escort missions pushed to find the long-range limits of the...
Squadron
P-51 Mustang
11 January 1944
This is a large fighter operation composed of a total of 592 aircraft. This operation is divided into two fighter elements with a combined force of 221 aircraft (P-47s and P-51s) providing escort for the Oshersleben - Halberstat B-17 bomber formations...
Military site : airfield
Boxted was built for heavy bombers and became operational from May 1943. In the few months B-26 Marauders of the 386th Bomb Group were stationed there, there were two night attacks by the Luftwaffe. On 17 August 1943, one man was killed when bombs...
Military site : airfield
Close to but completely separate from RAF Headcorn, Lashenden was built for the RAF during 1942-43 as an Advanced Landing Ground (ALG), initially as a light bomber base and then as a training base for mobile fighter squadrons. Enlarged and improved for...
Military site : airfield
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04 May 2017 03:40:43 | fugari | Changes to nickname, service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and media associations |
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JCook Photo Collection & Archives |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
08 July 2016 06:48:02 | usafdo | Changes to media associations |
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A. L. DESTRO II |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:14:28 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |