Lewis P Ensign
MilitaryHandwritten; (GPR-314-1-398) (22-3-45) (Col. Ensign). Nuthampstead Ref: A9321
Nuthampstead Airfield Museum collection
398th Bomb Group Collection via Nuthampstead Airfield Museum. Museum object reference number: USB1-51
Commanding Officer, 398th Bomb Group, 25th January to 17th April 1945.
Assigned from the 91st Bomb Group (H) as replacement Group Commander after Col. Frank P Hunter Jr. was KIA on the 23rd January mission to Neuss, Germany.
Lt. Col. Ensign left the 398th Bomb Group in order to return home to see his terminally ill Father.
Lt.Col. Ensign led the 398th Bomb Group on February 14th, 1945, when they bombed Prague instead of Dresden.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Wing
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Boise, Idaho | 16 October 1914 | |
Died |
17 August 2000 | ||
Buried |
San Antonio National Cemetery |
Revisions
GENERAL ORDER # 614, 12 December 1944, from Headquarters 1 Bomb Division by Brigadier General Turner.
Appointed Commanding Officer of the 398th Bombardment Group on January 29, 1945.
Before assuming his duties as Lt. Col in 1945, he also served as Deputy Air Commander of the 91st Heavy Bombardment Group, and later as Air Executive of the 1st Combat Wing.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / relative, Mention in Hell from Heaven: Memoirs of a WW II B-17 Bombardier by Leonard Streitfeld p.160