Luverne Fritz Abendroth | American Air Museum in Britain

Lt. Luverne F Abendroth. 3rd Scouting Force, ex 486th Bomb Group. Flew 42 missions with 3SF but details of assigned a/c currently unknown. He is seen here being congratulated by Vince Masters.

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Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.
Transferred to 3rd Scouting Force. Ended Tour Duty (ETD).

Service

8th Air Force

Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ...
3rd Scouting Force

Group
The 3rd Scouting Force was unique in that it operated P-51s and B-17s simultaneously, flying weather reconnaissance and escort missions for the 8th Air Force's Bomb Groups. ...
486th Bomb Group

Group
The 486th Bomb Group flew both B-24s and B-17s, swapping from the former aircraft to the latter in late July 1944 after 49 missions. In total the Group flew 292 missions during the war and remarkably the 834th Bomb Squadron lost no aircraft or...
832nd Bomb Squadron

Squadron

Sudbury

Military site : airfield
Situated between the villages of Great Waldingfield and Acton, the airfield was used by the 486th Bomb Group from March 1944 to August 1945. Facilities for administrative offices for the Combat Wing were also made available here and along with barrack...
Wormingford

Military site : airfield
Wormingford was a Royal Flying Corps/RAF anti-Zeppelin aircraft Landing Ground First World War, rebuilt for the Eighth Air Force 1942-43. It was a Ninth Air Force base from 1943-44, and home to the 362nd Fighter Group. Switching back to the Eighth Air...

Event	Location	Date
Born	Washington, USA	19 November 1917
Son of Fritz and Adele Mindella [Harwood] Abendroth.
Enlisted	Portland, OR, USA	27 December 1941
Assigned	Sudbury, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10, UK	1944 – 31 August 1944
Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.
Transferred	Wormingford, Colchester, Essex CO6, UK	31 August 1944 – 15 April 1945
Transferred to 3rd Scouting Force.
End Tour Duty (ETD)	England, UK	15 April 1945
Ended Tour Duty (ETD).
Buried	Washington County, OR, USA	1987
Fir Lawn Cemetery Hillsboro Washington County Oregon, USA.
Died	Washington, USA	14 November 1987

Date	Contributor	Update
31 August 2016 15:00:49	general ira snapsorter	Changes to biography
Sources
Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:- - the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
Date	Contributor	Update
20 June 2016 17:36:16	Al_Skiff	Changes to unit associations
Sources
https://www.fold3.com/page/84927976_luverne_f%20abendroth/details/ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Abendroth&GSfn=Luv...
Date	Contributor	Update
20 June 2016 15:34:37	Al_Skiff	Changes to events and unit associations
Sources
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Abendroth&GSfn=Luv... https://www.fold3.com/page/84927976_luverne_f%20abendroth/details/
Date	Contributor	Update
20 June 2016 15:28:03	Al_Skiff	Changes to middlename, firstname, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations
Sources
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Abendroth&GSfn=Luv... https://www.fold3.com/page/84927976_luverne_f%20abendroth/details/
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:18:09	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list