84th Fighter Wing
Wing
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UPL 30460
Two propellers of P-47D-10-RE (no.42-75116) at the site it crashed, near Lymington, on the 19th of April 1944. The pilot 2nd Lt. Edwin R. Johnston had been in collision with the aircraft of Capt. William R. Fleming and both crashed, Fleming was killed.
My photograph taken at low tide, about the year 2000.
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- Unit Hierarchy: Company
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Company
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Company
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Platoon
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Air base
- Unit Hierarchy: Platoon
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Air base
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Sources
Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)