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Captain William Battersby
Pilot - 668th BS Operations Officer
416th BG
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416th Bomb Group
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668th Bomb Squadron
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William Battersby
Military | Captain | Pilot - Squadron Operations Officer
Captain Battersby was Operations Officer of the 668th and flew on the mission of 9 May 1944 to the Aershot Marshalling Yard in Belgium. Upon returning from the mission, he took a newly arrived A-20 up for a test flight. The plane, without warning,...
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Wethersfield
Military site : airfield
Planned in 1942 as an Eighth Air Force bomber base, Wethersfield was then supposed to be loaned to the RAF in 1943, but was re-allocated to the Ninth Air Force by the time it was complete. Built during 1943-44, it had three concrete runways, 49 loop...
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| 02 March 2021 02:19:25 | 466thHistorian | Created entry with caption, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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