Lewis P Ensign

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media-36238.png UPL 36238 On front: (typed) Col.Ensign's crew of the 8th AF's 398th Bomb Group by their B-17 at their base in England, 22 March 1945. War theatre #12 (England) CREWS.
Handwritten; (GPR-314-1-398) (22-3-45) (Col. Ensign). Nuthampstead Ref: A9321
Nuthampstead Airfield Museum collection

398th Bomb Group Collection via Nuthampstead Airfield Museum. Museum object reference number: USB1-51

Object Number - UPL 36238 - On front: (typed) Col.Ensign's crew of the 8th AF's 398th Bomb Group by their B-17 at their base in England, 22 March 1945. War theatre #12 (England)...

Commanding Officer, 398th Bomb Group, 25th January to 17th April 1945.



Assigned from the 91st Bomb Group (H) as replacement Group Commander after Col. Frank P Hunter Jr. was KIA on the 23rd January mission to Neuss, Germany.



Lt. Col. Ensign left the 398th Bomb Group in order to return home to see his terminally ill Father.



Lt.Col. Ensign led the 398th Bomb Group on February 14th, 1945, when they bombed Prague instead of Dresden.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 398th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Boise, Idaho 16 October 1914

Died

17 August 2000

Buried

San Antonio National Cemetery

Revisions

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ContributorHotelie1970
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GENERAL ORDER # 614, 12 December 1944, from Headquarters 1 Bomb Division by Brigadier General Turner.

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Contributoremma simpson
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Appointed Commanding Officer of the 398th Bombardment Group on January 29, 1945.

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Contributoremma simpson
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Before assuming his duties as Lt. Col in 1945, he also served as Deputy Air Commander of the 91st Heavy Bombardment Group, and later as Air Executive of the 1st Combat Wing.

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ContributorOzzie
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I have corrected the biography of Lewis P. Ensign.

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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 / relative, Mention in Hell from Heaven: Memoirs of a WW II B-17 Bombardier by Leonard Streitfeld p.160

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