2025th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon
Platoon
On 24 April 1944, two firefighters were killed when the aircraft they were flying crashed and burned a short distance from the fire station.
Military
Killed in Action (KIA)
Private Flaherty was killed when a damaged aircraft returning from a mission crashed into his crash truck , Deopham Airbase, England while assigned to the 2112th EAFFP
Platoon
On 24 April 1944, two firefighters were killed when the aircraft they were flying crashed and burned a short distance from the fire station.
Event | Location | Date |
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Enlisted | Pennsylvania, USA | 10 March 1943 |
Died | Deopham, Wymondham NR18, UK | 9 May 1944 |
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Plot E Row 4 Grave 6, Cambridge American Cemetery |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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07 August 2020 15:53:32 | MHAS Museum Manager | Changes to unit associations |
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Museum Manager MHAS - Checked this persons details and he was not included in personnel of 2122 Engineer (Aviation) Fire Fighting Platoon at Martlesham Heath - 356th FG -Station F-369 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
22 January 2017 20:34:09 | usaeff | Changes to awards |
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http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=122163 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
22 January 2017 19:22:01 | usaeff | Changes to events |
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Access to Archival Databases: https://aad.archives.gov |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
28 December 2016 18:53:01 | usaeff | Changes to biography |
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Unit History received from Air Force Historical Research Agency; http://www.afhra.af.mil/ |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
28 December 2016 18:52:10 | usaeff | Changes to unit associations |
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Unit History received from Air Force Historical Research Agency; http://www.afhra.af.mil/ |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
14 November 2016 21:38:16 | usaeff | Changes to events |
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Fire Trucks at War website |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
14 November 2016 21:36:38 | usaeff | Changes to service number, role, biography, events and unit associations |
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American Battle Monuments Commission website and Fire Trucks at War website |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:16:00 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces vol 3 pg 651 |