8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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42-103334
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 354FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission Lechfield A/D. Hit by flak crashed SW Lechfield. Pilot Lt Peter M Sawchuck KIA (KIA). 24-Jul-44 MACR 7730.
Service
Units
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355th Fighter Group
Group
Where the 353rd Fighter Group had pioneered ground strafing techniques, it was the 355th Fighter Group who destroyed more enemy aircraft by ground strafing than any other Eighth Air Force Group. Based at Steeple Morden from July 1943 to July 1945, the... -
354th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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William Martin
Military | Second Lieutenant | 355th Fighter Group
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Peter Sawchuk
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 355th Fighter Group
Assigned to 354FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission Lechfield A/D in P-51 42-103334 'Martins Gloria'. Hit by flak crashed SW Lechfield. Killed in Action (KIA). 24-Jul-44 MACR 7730.
Places
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Steeple Morden
Military site : airfield
Originally used from 1940 as a small, grass airfield, satellite for nearby RAF Bassingbourn, Steeple Morden was allocated to the Eighth Air Force in August 1942 as a potential bomber base. It was used briefly by the 3rd Photographic Group during the...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Manufactured | Inglewood, CA, USA | 1944 |
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Built at North American. |
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| Delivered | California, USA | 1944 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Steeple Morden, Royston SG8, UK | 1944 |
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Assigned to 354FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | Lechfeld, Germany | 24 July 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission Lechfield A/D. Hit by flak crashed SW Lechfield. Pilot Lt Peter M Sawchuck KIA (KIA). 24-Jul-44 MACR 7730. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 02 November 2017 17:13:26 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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http://littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-103334&Submit=Search |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:13 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 7730 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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