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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42-74660
P-47 Thunderbolt
Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 406FS, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) 5-Jul-44. Ran short of fuel over north sea, abandoned by pilot Lt Arlington Canizares Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 6618.
Service
Units
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406th Fighter Group
Group
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56th Fighter Group
Group
Flying P-47 Thunderbolts throughout their time stationed in England, the Group, known as "the Wolfpack", had more ace pilots than any other Eighth Air Force Fighter Group. The 56th Fighter Group also destroyed more enemy aircraft in air combat than any... -
62nd Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Arlington Canizares
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 56th Fighter Group
On 9 April 1944, Canizares ran out of fuel when flying his P-47 over the North Sea and was killed bailing out. Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH. -
Leroy Schreiber
Military | Major | Fighter Pilot, Pilot | 56th Fighter Group
Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return 'Jackpot' to Flensburg in P-47 43-25577; hit by flak strafing A/D, crashed near Flensburg Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 4185 Awards: DSC, DFC (4OLC), AM (3OLC), PH.
Places
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Ashford
Military site : airfield
Built as an Advanced Landing Ground for the RAF in 1942-1943, Ashford was improved and made ready for the Ninth Air Force in 1944. The 406th Fighter Group operated from the airfield in 1944, before the airfield was returned to RAF use and returned to... -
Boxted
Military site : airfield
Boxted was built for heavy bombers and became operational from May 1943. In the few months B-26 Marauders of the 386th Bomb Group were stationed there, there were two night attacks by the Luftwaffe. On 17 August 1943, one man was killed when bombs...
Events
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| Manufactured | Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA | 1944 |
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Built at Republic. |
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| Delivered | LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Queens, NY 11371, USA | 1944 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Boxted, Colchester, UK | 1944 |
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Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Ashford, UK | 1944 |
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Transferred to 406FS, 9AF USAAF.d |
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| Crashed | North Sea | 5 July 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) 5-Jul-44. Ran short of fuel over north sea, abandoned by pilot Lt Arlington Canizares Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 6618. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 02 October 2017 19:37:42 | 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=42-74660&Submit=Search |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:03 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 6618 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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