Sherman Armsby
Military ROLL OF HONOURLeft to right, back row:
Howard Spaulding, Herbert Boelter, David Morgan, James Eason, Murray Bell, Eugene Cole, David Edwards, William Shackelford, William Kemp, William McCoppin, Maynard Emlaw, Dustin Cowle, William Gill, Eugene Gentzler and Bruce Rowlett
Left to right, second row:
Charles Narvis and Joseph Kapr
Left to right, third row:
Raymond Comer, Alton Snyder, Robert Adams, Sherman Armsby, Robert Wright, Warren Ewert, John Black, Roswell Freedman (Squadron Commander), James Hall and Urban Drew
Left to right, fourth row:
James Donohue, William Rogers, John Thomas, Russell Sobieski, Merle Rainey, Dean Morehouse, Elroy Neely, Francis Glankler
Left to right, fifth row: Charles Cummins, 'Snitz' and Martin Johnson
Museum object reference no. BAM_0308 Bottisham Airfield Museum
Amended formatting of caption to make it easier to work out who is who.
Assigned to 495FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 375FS, 361FG, 8AF USAAF. Credited with 5.5 destroyed, 2 damaged. Destroyed 3 x Bf109's on a single mission dated 20-Jul-44. Brought down strafing rail carriages, ammunition carriage exploded as he flew over it near Thionville 26-Aug-44 in P-51B 43-24761 'Jacqueline'. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 8538.
Awards: DSC, DFC, AM (3 OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Pleasanton, KS 66075, USA | 8 December 1924 | Son of Horace and Jessie Edith [Rawson] Armsby. |
Enlisted |
Maryland, USA | 17 September 1942 | |
Other Transferred |
Bottisham, Cambridge CB25, UK | 9 April 1944 - 26 August 1944 | Transferred to 375FS, 361FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Died |
57100 Thionville, France | 26 August 1944 | Brought down strafing rail carriages, ammunition carriage exploded as he flew over it near Thionville 26-Aug-44 in P-51B 43-24761 'Jacqueline'. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 8538. |
Buried |
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Other Promotion |
Bottisham, Cambridge CB25, UK | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. | |
Other Assigned |
Atcham, Shrewsbury, UK | 9 April 1944 | Assigned to 495FTG, 8AF USAAF. |
Oakland, CA, USA |
Revisions
http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=armsby
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmacr.asp?MACR=8538
https://www.fold3.com/image/28673486/?terms=Sherman%20Armsby
https://www.fold3.com/page/83815169_sherman_armsby/details/
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Armsby&GSfn=Sherm…;
Combined two entries into a single entry. Record includes information from the following sources:
MACR 8538 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
https://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WW…
http://www.fold3.com/image/28673486/
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul B. Cora, MACR 8538 / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list