Melvin C Wood
MilitaryCrash landed on local training flight due to engine failure on 26 Jan 1944 in P47D #42-75414. RTD. P-47D #42-75446 was hit by MG fire and flak while flying low on a bomber support mission to Berlin on 22 Mar 1944 and crashed near Egmond-Binnen, Holland after the pilot baled out. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: T-I-I-MBER-R | Charlotte
- Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 551st Fighter Training Squadron 61st Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 56th Fighter Group 61st Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron 552nd Fighter Training Squadron No 121 'Eagle' Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Kansas | 30 April 1917 | |
Died |
17 February 1954 | ||
Buried |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Hollland | 22 March 1944 |
Revisions
Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3390 / MACR 3390 Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database