John R Allen

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media-21088.jpeg UPL 21088 John R Allen, 62nd Fighter Squadron. 2Lt. Allen was killed in the crash of P-47 42-75095 on 12th September 1944. The cause of the crash has not been established but reports state that he appeared to go into a spin during aerobatics, recovered, then went into a power dive from which he did not recover. Crash site: Wick Farm, Layer Marney, Essex. Initially buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery at Madingley but repatriated and interred at Margaret Cemetery, Valley County, Idaho.

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Object Number - UPL 21088 - John R Allen, 62nd Fighter Squadron. 2Lt. Allen was killed in the crash of P-47 42-75095 on 12th September 1944. The cause of the crash has not been...

Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in the crash of P-47 42-75095 12-Sep-44. The cause of the crash has not been established but reports state that he appeared to go into a spin during aerobatics, recovered, then went into a power dive from which he did not recover. Crash site: Wick Farm, Layer Marney, Essex. Initially buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery at Madingley but repatriated and interred at Margaret Cemetery, Valley County, Idaho.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Pappy Yokum
  • Unit: 359th Fighter Group 56th Fighter Group 368th Fighter Squadron 62nd Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Idaho, USA 9 December 1921 Son of Daniel Knowlton and Mary Ruth [Hillmon] Allen.

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

RAF Birch, Colchester, Essex, UK 12 September 1944 Killed in the crash of P-47 42-75095 12-Sep-44. The cause of the crash has not been established but reports state that he appeared to go into a spin during aerobatics, recovered, then went into a power dive from which he did not recover.

Buried

Valley County, ID, USA Re-Interred. Margaret Cemetery Valley County Idaho.

Buried

Buried Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial.

Other

Assigned

Boxted, Colchester, Essex, UK 12 September 1944 Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF.
Idaho, USA

Revisions

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ContributorLucy May
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Copied in information from caption of UPL 21088, added to the website by Peter Randall of Little Friends: http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/

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ContributorPyker
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Changed media to show correct image of John R Allen rather than John T Allen.

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ContributorRichard Boxted
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Boxted airfield museum

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list / www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/personnel.htm

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