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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P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 354FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Neuberg A/D on 2nd strafing pass hit by flak crashed into wood near Boenfeld pilot 1st Lt Robert M White Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 12398.
Service
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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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Robert White
Military | Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot, Pilot | 355th Fighter Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Boehnfeld on 23 Feb 45 in P-51 'Dutchess of Manhattan' #42103795 After WWII he was a test pilot of X-15 rocket plane to earn astronaut wings in the early 1960s.
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 | Dallas, TX, USA | 1944 |
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Built at North American. |
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| Delivered | Texas, 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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| Failed to Return (FTR) | Bonefeld, Germany | 23 February 1945 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Neuberg A/D on 2nd strafing pass hit by flak crashed into wood near Boenfeld pilot 1st Lt Robert M White Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 12398. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 06 March 2018 13:39:39 | Drgondog | Changes to nicknames and markings |
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Aircraft first assigned to Captain Bert W. Marshall, Jr. 354FS Operations Officer. Coded WR-O 'JANE' and then assigned 'WR-V' and assigned to Lieutenant James Austin. Damaged in Taxi Accident on 8-11-1944. NEVER assigned WR-S, Returned as WR-V and remained WR-V until it was shot down with Bob White. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 November 2017 17:52:28 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-103795&Submit=Search |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:13 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 12398 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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