Vincent R James

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Object Number - UPL 23251

Lt. Vincent R. James of Lincoln, was killed in action over England on June 29, 1944, receiving posthumously the award of the Purple Heart. He was a fighter pilot, having graduated from Aloe Field, Victoria, Texas, December 5, 1943.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 405th Fighter Group 509th Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Buried

1 July 1944 Plot F Row 1 Grave 98 Cambridge American Cemetery

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Killed in Service (KIS)

29 June 2044 42-76476 & 42-26338 P-47Ds.509FS/405FG further t/o incident at Christchurch involving the same pilot as the previous incident(Vincent R James),cr on bungalow Foxwood Ave 6 killed on ground + pilot. :So I’m standing there with my wing man ol’ Williams (Lt Arthur F. Williams Jr.). He had just gotten some mail. The little girl he was engaged to had finished high school and he had sent her a ring. The letter had a picture of her showing him that ring. All of a sudden BOOM! And we looked out at the end of the runway and there was a big old smoke cloud where a bomb had gone off. So we ran across to it. The kid (the one who had just crashed a few minutes before) had crashed again, this time into a house that had a lot of children in it. We knew the family made the children go in the basement when we were taking off." - 1LT John Drummond

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Sources

Hampshire Airfields site no longer live, so updating the source where the information is now published, as https://nfhwa.org/hampshire-air-crashes/

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ContributorA. van Erp
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ContributorAAM
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Sources

9th Air Force Roll of Honor (IWM in liaison with Ninth Air Force veterans and group associations, American Battle Monuments Commission, and Buddies of the Ninth Association) / Mr C D Mohrle, Freeman 9 AF airfields book

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