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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Assigned to 330FS, 329FG, USAAF. Transferred to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. Completed (End) Tour of Duty (ETD).
Returned stateside to instruct new fighter pilots in California.
Awards: WWII Victory.
Post War: Established Ammerman Plumbing and Heating. Retired from plumbing and heating 1990 and began working at the Graceville Golf Course as grounds supervisor.
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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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...
Squadron
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...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Chippewa County, MI, USA | 4 February 1921 |
Lived in | Clara City, MN 56222, USA | 1940 |
Enlisted | Redwood Falls, MN 56283, USA | 27 July 1942 |
Assigned | North Island Naval Air Station (Halsey Field), San Diego, CA 92135, USA | 1 March 1944 – 27 May 1944 |
Assigned to 330FS, 329FG, USAAF. NAS San Diego. |
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Transferred | Honington, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31, UK | 25 May 1944 – December 1944 |
Transferred to 384FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Promotion | Honington, Bury Saint Edmunds IP31, UK | September 1944 |
Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
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End Tour of Duty (ETD) | England, UK | December 1944 |
Ended Tour of Duty (ETD). |
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Died | Graceville, MN 56240, USA | 18 March 2005 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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07 September 2016 14:43:25 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography |
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from: |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
11 July 2016 20:01:11 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, highest rank, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/gallery.php?Group=339&Style=searchItem&It... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:11:05 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |