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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Dudley Moore Amoss
Military
Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. 59 Missions credited with 5.5 kills and 1.5 destroyed [Ground]. Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission to Hopsten aerodrome. Hit by flak, limped towards friendly territory in Belgium, belly landed near Arnhem in P-51D 44-15123 on 21-Mar-45 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 13226.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory.
Service
Units served with
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55th Fighter Group
Group
The 55th Fighter Group were the first P-38 Lightning Group to go fully operational from England. The pilots flew long-range escort missions for bombers flying over occupied Europe and racked up 'kills' of their own by destroying enemy aircraft in... -
38th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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44-13818 'Mah Ideel'
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort mission to Lonnewitz, engine failed, A/C abandoned Limberg, Germany 2-Mar-45 pilot 1st Lt Samuel F Anderson POW. MACR 12873. -
44-15123
P-51 Mustang
Associated Place
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Wormingford
Military site : airfield
Wormingford was a Royal Flying Corps/RAF anti-Zeppelin aircraft Landing Ground First World War, rebuilt for the Eighth Air Force 1942-43. It was a Ninth Air Force base from 1943-44, and home to the 362nd Fighter Group. Switching back to the Eighth Air... -
Stalag Luft I
Other location
Events
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| Born | Baltimore, MD, USA | 7 July 1922 |
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Baltimore |
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| Lived in | Greenwich, CT, USA | 1940 |
| Enlisted | Connecticut, USA | 17 November 1943 |
| Assigned | Wormingford, Colchester CO6, UK | 17 August 1944 – 21 March 1945 |
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Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Promotion | Wormingford, Colchester CO6, UK | 28 November 1944 |
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Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. |
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| Promotion | Wormingford, Colchester CO6, UK | 8 March 1945 |
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Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | Barth, Germany | 21 March 1945 – May 1945 |
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Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
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| Shot Down | NE of Arnhem, Netherlands | 21 May 1945 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) strafing mission to Hopsten aerodrome. Hit by flak, limped towards friendly territory in Belgium, belly landed near Arnhem in P-51D 44-15123 on 21-Mar-45 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 13226. |
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| Died | Millcreek, UT, USA | 22 July 2011 |
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Millcreek |
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