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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Alfred A Albrecht
Military
Assigned to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort Halle, entered melee with section, became detached and shot down near Eschwege in P-51 44-14174 Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 8785.
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... -
384th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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44-14174
P-51 Mustang
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 | Montana, USA | |
| Lived in | Pennsylvania, USA | 1940 |
| Assigned | Honington, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk IP31, UK | 27 May 1944 – 11 September 1944 |
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Assigned to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | 37269 Eschwege, Germany | 11 September 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort Halle, entered melee with section, became detached and shot down near Eschwege in P-51 44-14174 Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 8785. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 01 July 2016 11:23:37 | Al_Skiff | Changes to role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Albrecht&Submit=S... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:03:19 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8785 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |
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