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Robert H Addleman

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  • Photo of Lt. Robert H. Addleman courtesy Anthony Chardella. Archived by Char Baldridge, Historian, 359th Fighter Group Association. Posted by Janet Fogg.

    Photo of Lt. Robert H. Addleman courtesy Anthony Chardella. Archived by Char Baldridge, Historian, 359th Fighter Group Association. Posted by Janet Fogg.

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Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Flew over 60 combat missions for 270 hours, from April 1944 through November 1944. Ended Tour Duty (ETD). Following the war, he attended the Indiana University School of Medicine, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1950. In 1951-2, he re-entered the Air Force as a Flight Surgeon, based in Italy. He left the USAF in 1953 with the rank of Captain and returned to Indianapolis. He was active in various hospitals as an anesthesiologist until his retirement in 1994.

Service

Units served with

  • 8th Air Force

    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. ...

  • 359th Fighter Group

    359th Fighter Group

    Group
    The 359th Fighter Group flew 346 missions from East Wretham between December 1943 and April 1945. In the main these missions were escorting bombers flying over occupied Europe. The Group, soon after converting from Thunderbolts to Mustangs, were...

  • 368th Fighter Squadron

    368th Fighter Squadron

    Squadron
    Distinguished Unit Citation: Germany, 11 September 1944.

Associated Place

  • East Wretham

    Military site : airfield
    East Wretham was not improved to Class A standard. It retained its shorter runways, although eventually pierced-steel planking was laid to make take offs and landings easier for the Thunderbolt, and then Mustang, pilots. Steel matting was also laid to...

Events

Event Location Date
Born 28 January 1921

Indiana
Enlisted Lafayette, IN, USA 26 May 1942
Assigned Wretham, Thetford, Norfolk IP24, UK 29 April 1944 – 16 November 1944

Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF.
Promotion Wretham, Thetford, Norfolk IP24, UK 29 June 1944

Promoted to 1st Lieutenant.
End Tour of Duty (ETD) England, UK 16 November 1944

Ended Tour of Duty (ETD).
Buried 2004

Robert Addleman rests at the Brownsburg Cemetery in Brownsburg, Hendricks County, Indiana
Died 6 October 2004

in Brownsburg, Indiana
Nationality
American
Nickname
Not yet known
Service numbers
15095756 at enlistment, then O-742922
Highest rank
First Lieutenant
Role/job
Fighter Pilot
Awards
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
  • World War II Victory Medal

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
08 May 2019 18:07:07 Janet Fogg Changes to media associations
Sources

359th Fighter Group Association
Date Contributor Update
08 May 2019 17:59:08 Janet Fogg Changes to biography
Sources

359th FG archives
Date Contributor Update
08 May 2019 17:55:43 Janet Fogg Changes to biography
Sources

359th Fighter Group archives
Date Contributor Update
18 October 2018 12:23:26 ED-BB Changes to service number, biography and events
Sources

NARA WWII Enlistment records
E-mails in 2004/5 with daughter Cristina.
Date Contributor Update
26 June 2016 12:20:08 Al_Skiff Changes to highest rank, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations
Sources

https://www.fold3.com/page/84185848_robert_h%20addleman/details/
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:23:30 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list / Unit History

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