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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Simon Kendall Anderson
Military
Assigned to 55FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF.
End Of War (EOW).
Service
Units served with
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20th Fighter Group
Group
In August 1943, the 20th Fighter Group arrived in Clyde, Scotland, before travelling to Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire, which was to be their base for the rest of the war. The Group flew 312 missions before their last mission on 25 April 1945. The... -
55th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Associated Place
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Wittering
Military site : airfield
Wittering, now in Cambridgeshire, began as RFC Stamford in 1916. By the end of the First World War, it had been renamed RAF Wittering, and was used by both British and American aircraft. It had six hangars, fifteen aircraft sheds and many other...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Lived in | Bellingham, Washington | 1940 |
| Crashed | Airport Blvd, Aurora, CO 80011, USA | 13 February 1945 |
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Landing Accident Peterson Fld CO Cat. BL damage, pilot Lt Simon K Anderson, 13-Feb-45. P-40N 44-7353 1Sqn 268AAFBU 2AF. |
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| Assigned | Wittering, Peterborough PE8, UK | 23 April 1945 – May 1945 |
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Assigned to 55FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| End Of War (EOW) | Europe | May 1945 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 07 September 2016 15:55:21 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography and events |
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from: |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 19 July 2016 20:11:14 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nickname, service number, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:25:12 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / King's Cliffe Memorial Edition |
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