5th Air Depot Group
Group
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Squadron
Group
Station | Location | Date |
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Based | Abbots Ripton |
Military | Corporal | Airplane and Engine Mechanic
Inducted 9/9/42. After BT, went to Airplane and Engine mechanics school for 15 weeks at Seymour Johnson Fld, NC. Shipped to ETO as replacement 4/43, ass. to 5th DRS at Little Staughton. Trans. to Merville, France to repair bombers. After VE Day,...
Military | Sergeant | Airplane Electrical Mechanic
Worked on maintenance and repair of supercharges. Inspected and kept in best working condition. Worked on maintenance and repair of electronic turbo regulators. Inspected, cleaned and adjusted same.
EAME w/ 6 Bronze Stars/ GC
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Date | Contributor | Update |
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27 September 2014 18:42:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
Sources | ||
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |