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2nd Lt Joseph S Busenbark 396FS, 368FG, 9AF USAAF.
Tablets of the Missing - detail.
Assigned to 396FS, 368FG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing mission to Trier, Germany. Having shot down 1 x Fw190 engine started running roughly missing badly, set course for home crash landed near Lissendorf, Germany. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 11428.
Awards: DFC, AM (5OLC), PH.
Group
The 368th Fighter Group flew P-47s in combat from England from March 1944. In the days after D-Day the Group supported Allied ground troops fighting in the Cherbourg penisula and then around St. Lo. The Group received a DUC for flying seven missions in...
Squadron
P-47 Thunderbolt
Assigned to 396FS, 368FG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing mission to Trier, Germany. Having shot down 1 x Fw190 engine started running roughly missing badly, set course for home crash landed near Lissendorf, Germany. Pilot 2Lt Joseph S...
Military site : airfield
Planned as a grass airfield Relief Landing Ground for RAF Middle Wallop, Chilbolton was used as a fighter and Army Co-operation base during 1940-42. Enlarged and upgraded with a tarmac-surface hard perimeter track, some double blast pens and other...
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| Born | Cochise, AZ 85606, USA | 21 August 1917 |
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Son of Andrew Joseph and Annie C [Adams] Busenbark. |
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| Lived in | Pearce, AZ 85610, USA | 1941 |
| Based | Chilbolton | 1944 – 23 December 1944 |
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Assigned to 396FS, 368FG, 9AF USAAF. |
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| E/A Destroyed | Lissendorf, Germany | 23 December 1944 |
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Fw190 destroyed Lissendorf 23-Dec-44. |
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| Died | Lissendorf, Germany | 23 December 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing mission to Trier, Germany. Having shot down 1 x Fw190 engine started running roughly missing badly, set course for home crash landed near Lissendorf, Germany. KIA. MACR 11428. |
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| Buried | 1945 | |
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Tablets of the Missing Netherlands American Cemetery |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 25 January 2017 18:25:56 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, biography, events, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmdate.asp?thedate=441223&Submit... |
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