Dudley Moore Amoss
MilitaryAssigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. 59 Missions credited with 5.5 kills and 1.5 destroyed [Ground]. Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission to Hopsten aerodrome. Hit by flak, limped towards friendly territory in Belgium, belly landed near Arnhem in P-51D 44-15123 on 21-Mar-45 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 13226.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bures / RAF Wormingford / RFC Wormingford / USAAF Station 159 / Wormingford Landing Ground
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Baltimore, MD, USA | 7 July 1922 | Baltimore Baltimore City Maryland, USA. |
Enlisted |
Connecticut, USA | 17 November 1943 | |
Other Assigned |
Wormingford, Colchester CO6, UK | 17 August 1944 - 21 March 1945 | Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other Promotion |
Wormingford, Colchester CO6, UK | 28 November 1944 | Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. |
Other Promotion |
Wormingford, Colchester CO6, UK | 8 March 1945 | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 21 March 1945 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
Other Shot Down |
NE of Arnhem, Netherlands | 21 May 1945 | Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission to Hopsten aerodrome. Hit by flak, limped towards friendly territory in Belgium, belly landed near Arnhem in P-51D 44-15123 on 21-Mar-45 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 13226. |
Died |
Millcreek, UT, USA | 22 July 2011 | Millcreek Salt Lake County Utah, USA. |
Greenwich, CT, USA |
Revisions
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13226 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list