John F Flaherty

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

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Events

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Enlisted

Pennsylvania, USA 10 March 1943

Died

Deopham, Wymondham NR18, UK 9 May 1944

Buried

Plot E Row 4 Grave 6, Cambridge American Cemetery

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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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http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=122163

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Access to Archival Databases: https://aad.archives.gov

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Unit History received from Air Force Historical Research Agency; http://www.afhra.af.mil/

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Unit History received from Air Force Historical Research Agency; http://www.afhra.af.mil/

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Fire Trucks at War website

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American Battle Monuments Commission website and Fire Trucks at War website

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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