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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42-106878
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 370FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission to Beaumont area shot down by Fw190 near Nogent Sur Oise pilot Lt Theophalus A Williams Killed in Action (KIA) 17-Aug-44. MACR 8125.
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... -
370th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Daniel McKee
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Fighter Pilot | 359th Fighter Group
April-Oct. 1943, to HQ, Feb. 1944-April 1945, to HQ, P-47D #42-75118, P-51B #42-106878, P-51D #44-14521 'Rayner Shine,' P-51D #44-72823 'Rayner Shine'. -
John Murphy
Military | Colonel | Fighter Pilot | 359th Fighter Group
P-40E 11th FS 343rd FG PTO P-47D /P-51D 359th FG ETO 6.75 air kills inc 1 ME-163 -
Theophalus Williams
Military | Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot, Pilot | 359th Fighter Group
Killed in Action (KIA) near Nogent Sur Oise in P-51 42-106878.
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 370FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Failed to Return (FTR) | Nogent-sur-Oise, France | 17 August 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission to Beaumont area shot down by Fw190 near Nogent Sur Oise pilot Lt Theophalus A Williams KIA 17-Aug-44. MACR 8125. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 20 January 2018 11:09:19 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, markings, description, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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http://littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-106878%2C&Submit=S... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:15 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 8125 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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