Thomas A Hanzo

Military
Second Lieutenant Jack Martin, First Lieutenant Merle B. Nicholas, Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Hanzo and Second Lieutenant Marion F. Bench of the 20th Fighter Group ride bicycles past a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - media-376977.jpg FRE 83 Second Lieutenant Jack Martin, First Lieutenant Merle B. Nicholas, Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Hanzo and Second Lieutenant Marion F. Bench of the 20th Fighter Group ride bicycles past a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already experienced in the other theatres of war - and ground crews swear by their ships. From briefing room to flying line, from runways to skyways and contest with the enemy, each mission represents expert planning by Operations and Intelligence and the brains and sweat of every man who prepares an order or tightens a screw on a prop. Photo shows:- 2nd Lt. Jack Martin, Whittier, California, 1st. Lt. Merle B. Nicholas, Seattle, Wash., 2/Lt. Thomas A. Hanzo, Cleveland, Ohio, and 2/Lt. Marion F. Bench, Chillicothe, Mo. U.S. Pool/SG/H. Keystone 422 97.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 83 - Second Lieutenant Jack Martin, First Lieutenant Merle B. Nicholas, Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Hanzo and Second Lieutenant Marion F. Bench of the...

Shot down by fighters on a bomber escort mission to Frankfurt am Main, GR and crashed near Montcornt,FR on 11 Feb 1944 in P-38J #42-67981. Prisoner of War (POW).



AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster, PH



2 FW190

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Units served with

Aircraft

42-67981

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 79th Fighter Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Cleveland, Ohio

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

France 11 February 1944

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2292 / MACR 2292, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces Vol 2, King's Cliffe Memorial Edition / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

Thomas A Hanzo: Gallery (2 items)

Second Lieutenant Jack Martin, First Lieutenant Merle B. Nicholas, Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Hanzo and Second Lieutenant Marion F. Bench of the 20th Fighter Group rest on the handlebars of their bicycles in front of a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of

Object number: FRE 76 - Second Lieutenant Jack Martin, First Lieutenant...

Second Lieutenant Jack Martin, First Lieutenant Merle B. Nicholas, Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Hanzo and Second Lieutenant Marion F. Bench of the 20th Fighter Group ride bicycles past a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots -

Object number: FRE 83 - Second Lieutenant Jack Martin, First Lieutenant...