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Asal Gerald Igney

Military

  • Captain Robert E. Robinson - Pilot SSGT Asal Gerald Igney - Crew Chief P-47D-20-RE #42-76515

    Captain Robert E. Robinson - Pilot SSGT Asal Gerald Igney - Crew Chief P-47D-20-RE #42-76515 "Lovely Lady Luck" Code: B4-R 365th Fighter Group - 387th Fighter Squadron - 8th AF

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Service

Units served with

  • 365th Fighter Group

    365th Fighter Group

    Group
    The Group moved to England in December 1943 as part of the Ninth Air Force. Flying P-47s, the Group took part in missions over northern France designed to weaken Germany's ability to repulse the planned Allied invasion of summer 1944. After the...

  • 387th Fighter Squadron

    387th Fighter Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

Associated Place

  • Dover Army Air Base

    Military site : airfield
    The first airfield site was near East Boldre, used before the First World War. A Royal Flying Corps and RAF station during the First World War, it was sold and dismantled from 1920-1924, though the land was used as a private airfield from 1933 to 1938....

  • Gosfield

    Military site : airfield
    First used as an airfield during the First World War, when known as Royal Flying Corps/RAF Sible Hedingham, it was built as Gosfield for the Eighth Air Force and then Ninth Air Force in 1942-43. Home to first the 365th Fighter Group, then the 397th...

  • Juvincourt

    Military site : airfield

  • Fritzlar

    Military site : airfield

  • Bretigny

    Military site : airfield

  • Azeville

    Military site : airfield

  • Chievres

    Military site : airfield

  • Metz

    Military site : airfield

  • Florennes / Juzaine

    Military site : airfield

  • Aachen

    Military site : airfield

Events

Event Location Date
Born Roanoke, IN 12 December 1921
Enlisted Toledo, OH 29 September 1942
Died Fort Wayne, IN 31 December 1992
Buried Huntington, IN 3 January 1993

Pleasant Chapel Cemetery
Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, USA
Plot
Row 19
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
35342038
Highest rank
Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade)
Role/job
Aircraft Crew Chief
Awards
  • American Campaign Medal
  • Bronze Star
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
  • Good Conduct Medal
  • World War II Victory Medal

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
17 December 2020 21:53:13 466thHistorian Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, events, unit associations and place associations
Sources

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/151523563/person/232027...
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52340652/asal-gerald-igney
http://hellhawks.org/387_roster.html

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