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2nd Lt Vaud V Ames 383FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF.
2nd Lt Vaud V. Ames:- Air medal award card. 364FG.
Assigned to 383FS, 364FG,AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort mission to Troyes. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2, abandoned P-38J 42-67222. A/C Crashed near Ramboulet. 25-May-44. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5272.
Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Group
The 364th Fighter Group flew 342 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs from Honington, Suffolk. The missions ranged from escorting bombers and dive-bombing and strafing targets to area patrol missions across a swathe of land that took in France...
Squadron
P-38 Lightning
Assigned to 383FS, 364FG,AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort mission to Troyes. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2, A/C abandoned, crashed near Rambouillet. 25-May-44. Pilot 2nd Lt Vaud V Ames. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5272.
Military site : airfield
Honington was in use by Eighth Air Force units for a longer period than any other air base in England. The air base, built in the mid 1930s as part of the RAF's expansion programme had seen plenty of action as an RAF base before it was handed over to...
Other location
Other location
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | 16 November 1922 | |
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Son of Vaud Thomas and Tilda M Ames. |
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| Lived in | Havana, IL, USA | 1940 |
| Enlisted | Peoria, IL, USA | 17 January 1941 |
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Peoria, Illinois |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Zagan, Poland | 25 May 1944 – May 145 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III. |
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| Shot down | 78120 Rambouillet, France | 25 May 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort mission to Troyes. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2, abandoned P-38J 42-67222. A/C Crashed near Ramboulet. 25-May-44. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5272. |
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| Died | Illinois, USA | 31 January 2002 |
| Buried | Houston National Cemetery Houston Harris County TX | February 2002 |
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Houston National Cemetery |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 23 October 2021 19:31:04 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, awards, events and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Ames |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 22 October 2021 16:45:18 | jmoore43 | Changes to events and place associations |
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Added POW Camp info to the POW event from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA). |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 11 July 2016 18:26:15 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Ames |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:21 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5272 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |
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