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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Vaud V Ames
Military
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2nd Lt Vaud V Ames 383FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF.
Assigned to 383FS, 364FG,AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort mission to Troyes. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2, abandoned P-38J 42-67222. A/C Crashed near Ramboulet. 25-May-44. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5272.
Service
Units served with
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364th Fighter Group
Group
The 364th Fighter Group flew 342 missions in P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs from Honington, Suffolk. The missions ranged from escorting bombers and dive-bombing and strafing targets to area patrol missions across a swathe of land that took in France... -
383rd Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-67222
P-38 Lightning
Assigned to 383FS, 364FG,AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort mission to Troyes. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2, A/C abandoned, crashed near Rambouillet. 25-May-44. Pilot 2nd Lt Vaud V Ames. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5272.
Associated Place
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Honington
Military site : airfield
Honington was in use by Eighth Air Force units for a longer period than any other air base in England. The air base, built in the mid 1930s as part of the RAF's expansion programme had seen plenty of action as an RAF base before it was handed over to...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | 16 November 1922 | |
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Son of Vaud Thomas and Tilda M Ames. |
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| Lived in | Havana, IL, USA | 1940 |
| Enlisted | Peoria, IL, USA | 17 January 1941 |
| Prisoner of War (POW) | Zagan, Poland | 25 May 1944 – May 145 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). |
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| Shot down | 78120 Rambouillet, France | 25 May 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort mission to Troyes. Shot down by Fw190 of 3/JG2, abandoned P-38J 42-67222. A/C Crashed near Ramboulet. 25-May-44. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5272. |
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| Died | Illinois, USA | 31 January 2002 |
| Buried | Houston, TX, USA | February 2002 |
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Houston National Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 11 July 2016 18:26:15 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Ames |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:21 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5272 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |
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