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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Jerome M Adler
Military
Assigned to 385FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF.
Service
Units served with
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364th Fighter Group
Group
The 364th Fighter Group flew 342 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs from Honington, Suffolk. The missions ranged from escorting bombers and dive-bombing and strafing targets to area patrol missions across a swathe of land that took in France... -
385th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Associated Place
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Honington
Military site : airfield
Honington was in use by Eighth Air Force units for a longer period than any other air base in England. The air base, built in the mid 1930s as part of the RAF's expansion programme had seen plenty of action as an RAF base before it was handed over to...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | New York, NY, USA | 1920 |
| Lived in | Kings County, NY, USA | 1940 |
| Enlisted | New York, NY, USA | 24 September 1940 |
| Assigned | Honington, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk IP31, UK | 11 August 1943 |
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Assigned to 385FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 26 June 2016 17:24:01 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, role, biography, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/page/83510176_jerome_m%20adler/details/ |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:15:10 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |
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