William Nicholson
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 392nd Bomb Group
Shot down 5 November 1943 in B-24 #427543 'Georgia Belle. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Mark E Hubbard
Military
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L/C Mark hubbard CO 20th FG
CO 59th FS flying P-40Fs North Africa 4 kills
CO 20th FG flying P-38Js for 2 weeks scored 2.5 kills
Shot down by flak P-38J s/n 42-67708 on 18 Mar 1944. Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft I.
Service
People
Units served with
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20th Fighter Group
Group
In August 1943, the 20th Fighter Group arrived in Clyde, Scotland, before travelling to Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire, which was to be their base for the rest of the war. The Group flew 312 missions before their last mission on 25 April 1945. The... -
Headquarters (20th Fighter Group)
Headquarters
Aircraft
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42-67708
P-38 Lightning
Associated Place
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Kings Cliffe
Military site : airfield
Kings Cliffe began as a satellite air base for the Group based at nearby Wittering. The 56th Fighter Group, however, were all based at Kings Cliffe and it was here that the pilots trained in P-47 Thunderbolts and flew their first missions in the... -
Stalag Luft I
Other location
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Prisoner of War | 18 March 1944 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 12 December 2018 14:12:26 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to events and unit associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 December 2016 00:33:21 | fugari | Changes to service number, highest rank, role, biography, awards, unit associations, place associations, aircraft associations and media associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:19:39 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3097, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces |
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