Arthur John Baranick
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to 338FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. On ferry flight from Kings Cliffe to Nuthampstead in P-38 42-67025 when left engine lost power and a/c crashed at Kings Cliffe. 19-Dec-43. RTD. Shot down by enemy fighter near Bonnieres in P-38 42-68130. 14-Jun-44. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 5740.
Award: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bures / RAF Wormingford / RFC Wormingford / USAAF Station 159 / Wormingford Landing Ground
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
South Boston, Boston, MA, USA | 22 May 1920 | Son of Elias and Margaret Baranick. |
Other Commendation |
Pearl Harbor, HI 96706, USA | 24 December 1941 | Received a commendation on 24-Dec-41 for his "heroic & courageous action under fire" during the attack on Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941. |
Based |
Wormingford | 19 November 1943 - 14 June 1944 | Assigned to 338FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other Crashed |
King's Cliffe, Peterborough PE8, UK | 19 December 1943 | On ferry flight from Kings Cliffe to Nuthampstead in P-38 42-67025 when left engine lost power and a/c crashed at Kings Cliffe. 19-Dec-43. RTD. |
Other Promotion |
Wormingford, Colchester CO6, UK | 26 March 1944 | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
Died Killed in action |
6540 Bonniers, Belgium | 14 June 1944 | Shot down by enemy fighter near Bonnieres in P-38 42-68130. 14-Jun-44. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 5740. |
Buried |
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Enlisted |
Massachusetts, USA |
Revisions
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from :
MACR 5740 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database;
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5740, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I, p. 425,
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