Vernon Arlie Burroughs
MilitaryIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Assigned to 357FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to return from strafing mission to St Dizier A/D, P-51D 'Ill Wind' 43-6636 hit by return fire from ground, crashed on 9-May-44 near Rilly Ste Syre, Lt Vernon A Burroughs baled out. POW. MACR 4682.
Killed in a crash in Texas in P-51H 44-64409, while serving with the 312th A.A.F. Base Unit HQ Squadron from March Army Airfield in California. 18-Sep-46.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Dizzy Miss/Mortician's Delight
- Unit: 355th Fighter Group 365th Fighter Group 357th Fighter Squadron 387th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Ill Wind?
- Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Dizzy Miss
- Unit: 355th Fighter Group 357th Fighter Group
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Champaign, IL, USA | 5 July 1921 | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 9 May 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III. |
Other Shot down |
Rilly-Sainte-Syre, France | 9 May 1944 | Failed to return from strafing mission to St Dizier A/D, P-51D 'Ill Wind' 43-6636 hit by return fire from ground, crashed on 9-May-44 near Rilly Ste Syre, Lt Vernon A Burroughs baled out. POW. MACR 4682. |
Died |
Donnelly Ave, Fort Worth, TX, USA | 18 September 1946 | Killed in a crash in Texas in P-51H 44-64409, while serving with the 312th A.A.F. Base Unit HQ Squadron from March Army Airfield in California. |
Buried |
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Los Angeles County CA | 23 September 1946 | Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, Los Angeles County California, USA. |
Los Angeles, California, USA |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4682 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list