Hugh Knerr
Military | Major | Commander
Served as supply and mainentance deputy commander for the service command from 24 Jul 42-22 Oct 43 the CG from 23 Oct 43-Jun 45.
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Military | Major | Commander
Served as supply and mainentance deputy commander for the service command from 24 Jul 42-22 Oct 43 the CG from 23 Oct 43-Jun 45.
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Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force in February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Established in Liverpool in late 1942 to distribute supplies arriving by ship from the US to the UK. Previously distribution of incoming supplies was handled by the US Army's service of supply, until VIII Air Force service command pressed for the need...
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot
Killed in Action (KIA). Crashed at Gresteel. County Londerry, N. Ireland in P-38G-3-LO.
Military | First Lieutenant
Crashed NW of Burtonwood on a local flight after the engine quit on 21 Mar 1944 in L-4B #43-677. RTD.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Material coordinator
Material Coordinator and AF supplies procurement
Military | Brigadier General | Commanding Officer, VIII Air Support Command
Appointed 2LT, Cavalry in 1916 after graduating Cornell U. Detailed to Air Service in 1922. Following basic and advanced instruction, served as instructor at Advanced Flying School at Kelly AFB. In 1926, entered Air Corps Tactical School, followed by...
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 27th Air Transport Group
DNB. Crashed in bad wether near Renfrew, Scotland in P-47D # 42-75606.
KNO after takeoff in P47#42-75606 flying from Renfrew to Burtonwood on an internal ferrying flight. Crashed at Hartfield, Renfrewshire.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot
Accident on training flight 27 August 1943 on test flight in Tiger Moth DE930. Suffered back injury upon crash in Lancashire.
Military | Captain | Fighter Pilot
Was attached to the RAF, Sept 43-Mar 44. 969th Guard Sqdrn. Trained RAF in Straffing and Light Bombing. Mar. 44-July 45 ADC BG Goodrich CG, 8th Serv. Command. Was bedridden with heart attack was sent home to the states, to Missing in Action (MIA)mi FL...
Military | Pilot
Ran off the end of the runway during takeoff in P-38J #42-68181 on 14 Feb 1944. RTD.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator
3 December 1943 crashed off South Wales in C-47#42-100511 on flight from Marrakech. Ditched on Bristol Channel. 6 RTD
Military | Captain | Chemical Engineer
USTAFF
B-17 Flying Fortress
Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-E] Bangor 30/8/42; Bassingbourn 26/9/42; 6m St Nazaire 22/11/42 BD, in hangar for about a year, constantly raided for spares, before being restored to flying condition, and transferred AFSC end of 1943 as trainer; Returned to...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 9/9/42; Boise 16/9/42; wrecked on landing with broken crankshaft, rep; Cheyenne 11/10/42; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-W] Bassingbourn 29/1/43 and first in group to have AFCE fitted at 2 SAD Lt Staughton 8/3/44; transferred 7/5/44 50+m...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 12/1/43; Rapid City 21/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Salina 31/3/43; Memphis 8/4/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-K] Alconbury 22/4/43; 2m, transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-Z] Bassingbourn 16/6/43; AFSC 15/4/44; Returned to the USA...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 3/2/43; Salina 17/2/43; Rapid City 20/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Morrison 28/3/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-F] 29/3/43; 4m transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-A1 then M] Bassingbourn 13/6/43; +24m AFSC 5/4/44; Returned to the USA Lockbourn 4/8/45;...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/43; Rapid City 22/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-P] Alconbury 15/4/43; Framlingham 12/5/43; Horham 15/6/43; 2m, transferred 369BS/306BG [WW-F] Thurleigh 4/8/43 WOLF PACK; 323BS/91BG [OR-M] Bassingbourn 11/9/43...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 19/8/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-F] Ridgewell 20/9/43; after 6 missions transferred AFSC, 487BG Lavenham; APH & Azon duties at Knettishall /44. AVENGER.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 13/9/43; Gr Island 1/10/43; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-G] Thurleigh 24/11/43; transferred AFSC 1/5/44; to Aphrodite Project, detailed Hemmingstadt, Germany 14/9/44, with Lts W. Haller & C. Shinault, bailed out over Suffolk coast, (2...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 4/10/42; Salina 19/1/43; Assigned 364BS/305BG [WF-D/B] Chelveston 1/2/43; transferred AFSC 5/4-9/5/43 and 29/7-12/10/43; 2 Base Air Depot, Lt Staughton 20/3/44; Returned to the USA 8/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 31/1/43; Salina 14/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Brookley 27/3/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-E] Horham 19/4/43; 412BS [QW-S]; 5m, transferred AFSC 6/43; on personnel ferry to Southport 29/12/43 with Alden Witt, Co-pilot: Bill Gaffney,...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 31/1/43; Rapid City 16/2/43; Morrison 28/3/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-A] Alconbury 5/4/43; 1m with H.M. Conley 14/5/43; transferred AFSC (92BG?) 4/8/43; 401BS/91BG [LL-B] Bassingbourn 5/9/43; Missing in Action 7m Bremen 26/11/43...
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27 September 2014 18:42:44 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |