Lloyd Horton
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot. B-17. Satan's Playmate. | 384th Bomb Group
Military
Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 546th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #126 dated 23 October 1943, Lloyd Horton Crew.
Was appointed as Group Navigator and transferred to Group Headquarters - 39 combat missions.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot. B-17. Satan's Playmate. | 384th Bomb Group
Military | Colonel | Commanding Officer; pilot | 384th Bomb Group
Group
The 384th Bomb Group flew B-17s from Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, between May 1943 and June 1945. They were engaged in daylight bombing missions over Germany as part of the Allies' efforts to destroy the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe by...
Squadron
Headquarters
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered to Cheyenne 22/8/44; Lincoln 1/9/44; Grenier 11/9/44; Assigned to the 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group [JD-F] Grafton Underwood on
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Military site : airfield
Grafton Underwood was built in 1941 by George Wimpey and Co. Ltd. It was the first airfield in England to receive an Eighth Air Force flying unit, when in May 1942 personnel of the 15th Bomb Squadron took up residence. As a satellite airfield for...
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20 May 2015 11:01:32 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to aircraft associations |
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Merged with duplicate record to include information from AAIR 44-11-16-534 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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23 February 2015 22:19:04 | bombercommand | Changes to service number, role, biography, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and media associations |
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384thbombgroup.com |
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27 September 2014 18:23:02 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=c... |