Larry James Bredda
MilitaryJune 1941 Joined Army Air Forces
Trained at Chanute Field III, Santa Ana California, Ontario California and Bakerfield, California.
May 1943 Wings earned Luke Field, Arizona
October 1943 Left for Overseas Duty
11 December 1943 B17G#42-31268 landed at Warton after a ferrying mission when the tail wheel dropped into an icy unmarked hole.
11 July 1945 P47D#42-25889 crashed at Lockinge after collision in fog with B25. Pilot died.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Transport
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
Revisions
USAAF Personnel Records & "Report of Aircraft Accident" as supplied by USAAF Historical Research Centre, Maxwell Air Force Base.
"Report of Aircraft Accident" as supplied by USAAF Historical Research Centre
"Report of Aircraft Accident" as supplied by USAAF Historical Research Centre
Ancestry and "Report of Aircraft Accident" as supplied by USAAF Historical Research Centre
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I, p. 417