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 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) ramrod Lisieux hit by flak in Vicinity St Marent crashed near Sommery on 8 Aug 44 2Lt Willis J Cherry Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 7781.
Service
Units
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359th Fighter Group
Group
The 359th Fighter Group flew 346 missions from East Wretham between December 1943 and April 1945. In the main these missions were escorting bombers flying over occupied Europe. The Group, soon after converting from Thunderbolts to Mustangs, were... -
368th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Distinguished Unit Citation: Germany, 11 September 1944.
People
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Willis Cherry
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 359th Fighter Group
Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) ramrod Lisieux hit by flak in Vicinity St Marent crashed near Sommery on 8 Aug 44 in P-51B 42-106577 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 7781. ...
Places
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East Wretham
Military site : airfield
East Wretham was not improved to Class A standard. It retained its shorter runways, although eventually pierced-steel planking was laid to make take offs and landings easier for the Thunderbolt, and then Mustang, pilots. Steel matting was also laid to...
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 | Edwards AFB, CA, USA | 1944 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Wretham, Thetford IP24, UK | 1944 |
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Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | 76440 Sommery, France | 8 August 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) ramrod Lisieux hit by flak in Vicinity St Marent crashed near Sommery on 8 Aug 44 2Lt Willis J Cherry Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 7781. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 January 2018 19:59:31 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, markings, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-106577&Submit=Search |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:14 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 7781 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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