Joseph McGraw
Military | Corporal | 55th Fighter Group
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Raymond Griffith Allen
Military
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1st Lt Raymond G Allen 343rd FS.
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1st Lt Raymond G Allen :- Air medal award card. 55FG.
Assigned to 343FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF.
Awards: AM (2OLC), WWII Victory, EAME..
Service
Units served with
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55th Fighter Group
Group
The 55th Fighter Group were the first P-38 Lightning Group to go fully operational from England. The pilots flew long-range escort missions for bombers flying over occupied Europe and racked up 'kills' of their own by destroying enemy aircraft in... -
343rd Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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44-13350 'Miss Velma' 'Merrimack'
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 343FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. Personal aircraft of Capt Frank E Birtciel. Re-assigned to Lt Raymond G Allen.
Associated Place
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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...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Ravenna, OH 44266, USA | 5 February 1922 |
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Son of Burritt and Nellie Boosinger Allen |
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| Lived in | Ravenna, OH 44266, USA | 1940 |
| Assigned | 22 March 1945 – May 1945 | |
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Assigned to 343FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| E/A Destroyed | Brunnthal, Germany | 9 April 1945 |
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Me-410 destroyed (ground) Munich-Brunnthal Landing Ground. |
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| E/A Destroyed 1/2 | 83256 Chiemsee, Germany | 16 April 1945 |
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BV-140 shared destroyed (ground) Lake Chiem. |
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| End of War | Europe | May 1945 |
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End of War. |
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| Promotion | Wormingford, Colchester, Essex CO6, UK | May 1945 |
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Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
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| Died | Youngstown, OH, USA | 9 December 1989 |
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Revisions
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| 23 November 2021 19:02:37 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography and awards |
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| 03 July 2017 19:50:10 | joellen47 | Changes to events |
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Daughter, JoEllen Elliott , Paris, OH |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 03 July 2017 19:46:34 | joellen47 | Changes to events |
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JoEllen Elliott, daughter |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 03 July 2017 19:43:03 | joellen47 | Changes to middlename and events |
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Information updated by his daughter, JoEllen Elliott of Paris, OH |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 July 2016 18:03:29 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nickname, highest rank, biography, awards, events, person associations, 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 18:22:07 | 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 / WWW.55th.org roster |
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