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Military
Assigned to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. Credited 1 Victory and 2 shared. Ended Tour of Duty (ETD).
Awards: DFC, AM (6 OLC), WWII Victory.
Group
The 357th Fighter Group was the first P-51 Mustang Group in the Eighth Air Force, training with them from November 1943 at Raydon, England and entering combat with them in the February of the following year from their new base at Leiston. The Group was...
Squadron
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 353FS, 354FG, 9AF USAAF.
Military site : airfield
Leiston's location only three miles from the North Sea Coast made it ideal as a Fighter Group air base whose job would be to escort bombers across the sea and over occupied Europe. The air base also witnessed the arrival of many very damaged Allied...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Lived in | Avon Park, FL 33825, USA | 1940 |
| Assigned | Leiston, Suffolk IP16, UK | 12 June 1944 – 19 November 1944 |
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Assigned to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| E/A Shared | Germany | 20 June 1944 |
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E/A Shared 20-Jun-44. |
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| E/A Shared | Germany | 29 June 1944 |
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E/A Shared 29-Jun-44. |
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| Promotion | Leiston, Suffolk IP16, UK | 12 July 1944 |
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Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
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| E/A Destroyed | Germany | 13 September 1944 |
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E/A destroyed 13-Sep-44. |
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| End Tour of Duty (ETD) | England, UK | 19 November 1944 |
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Ended Tour of Duty (ETD). |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 July 2016 17:29:28 | Al_Skiff | Changes to suffix, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Allen&Submit=Search |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:20:05 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list / The 357th Over Europe |
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