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#Name*First NamesTitleRankRAF Equivalent RankService No.BornNationalityRoleAwardsAir ForceCommandUnitDateofIncident *See NoteAircraftTypeSerialCodeVictories (Fighters)BaseTimeMission                        Incident                        FateCommemoratedPhoto (Click to Expand)Referring Database                        Notes                        Links/Archive Reports
1751 CwiklinskiArthur C 2nd LtO-820236USAPilotUSAAF4th Fighter Group334th Fighter Squadron: Fighting Eagles
1944-06-20P-47 Thunderbolt. (P-51 Mustang from mid 1944)0.5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1752 CwiklinskiArthur C 2nd LtO-820236USAPilotUSAAF4th Fighter Group334th Fighter Squadron: Fighting Eagles
1944-08-18P-47 Thunderbolt. (P-51 Mustang from mid 1944)2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1753 CzarneckiZigfryd "Ziggy“ ValentinoStaff SergeantSergeant3343755118th October 1923, Beaver Falls, Beaver County, PennsylvaniaAmericanWaist GunnerUSAAF8th Air Force379th Bombardment Group (H), 526th Bombardment Squadron (H), 1st Air Division1944-06-18B-17 G.I. JaneG42-102628LF:PKimbolton (Station #117), Huntingdonshire, EnglandHamburg (Mission #421), GermanySee Archive report for detailsMurderedRepatriated and buried at the St. Marys Cemetery, Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
1754 DabneyLewis S 1st LtO-715482USAPilotUSAAF36th Fighter Group53rd Fighter Squadron
1945-04-17P-47 Thunderbolt`1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1755 DabneyLeroy Sidney1st LieutenantFlying OfficerO-2057739AmericanNavigator/BombardierUSAAF8th Air Force445th Bombardment Group (H), 703rd Bombardment Squadron (H), 2nd Air Division1945.03.03B-24J42-50692RN:?Tibenham airfield (Station #124), Norfolk, EnglandMagdeburg (Mission #861), GermanySee Archive report for detailsPoW/ Unknown camp
1756 DabrowskiAndrew AnthonyStaff SergeantSergeant1611925527th July 1922 in Muskegon, MichiganAmericanBall Turret GunnerDFC

AM (3 Oak Leaf Clusters)

PH

USAAF8th Air Force303rd Bombardment Group (H), 360th Bombardment Squadron (H), 1st Air Division1944-09-28B-17G42-97805PU:QMolesworth (Station #107), Cambridgeshire, EnglandMagdeburg (Mission #652), GermanySee Archive report for detailsKilledRepatriated and buried at Saint Mary’s Cemetery Muskegon, Michigan
1757 DacciWilliam K 1st LtO-808234USAPilotUSAAF78th Fighter Group84th Fighter Squadron
1944-06-20P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1758 DadeLucian A JrMajorO-432184USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group62nd Fighter Squadron
1944-05-13P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1759 DadeLucian A JrMajorO-432184USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group62nd Fighter Squadron
1944-07-04P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1760 DadeLucian A Jr 'Pete'MajorO-432184USAPilotAir Medal with 13 oak leaf clusters (2 silver, 3 bronze) Army of Occupation Medal Distinguished Flying Cross European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal National Defense Service Medal Silver Star World War II Victory MedalUSAAF56th Fighter Group63rd Fighter Squadron
P-47 Thunderbolt5Boxted UKSource:afhra.maxwell.af.mil. American Air Museum ETO (European Theatre)

Pilots of the 56th Fighter Group celebrated 800 victories and the second anniversary of their arrival in England at a party on 6 January 1945 at Boxted air base.

he first P-47Ms, delivered in December, 1944, were rushed to the 56th Fighter Group, the last Eighth Air Force fighter unit equipped with the P-47. The P-47Ms began arriving on January 3, 1945. The 61st Fighter Squadron quickly converted to the new Thunderbolt, and immediately began to experience the same kind of engine problems they had confronted with the P-47C in January 1943. Three crashes due to engine failure, one fatal, led to the P-47M being grounded in late February, putting the 56th out of business. Dave Schilling’s extended tour as Group CO ended on January 27, and new CO Colonel Lucian Dade – who had been one of the original pilots in the 56th and who had served as squadron commander, operations officer, and deputy group commander – had to deal with the engine problems. When war-weary P-51Bs arrived for conversion training, Dade was able to stave off the dread Mustang when the engineers discovered the engines had been incorrectly “pickled” for overseas delivery, and the electrical harnesses had been corroded by exposure to salt air. With each engine completely overhauled by March 24, 1945, the engine problems were over and the group as a whole was ready to re-commence operations. P-47Ms were not fitted with underwing racks at first, since they were strictly fighters; they did however used the wing racks in the final two weeks of the war when they were primarily attacking German airfields. With only a few weeks of war left, the 56th demonstrated that the P-47M was indeed a “hot rod” that turned the Thunderbolt into an air superiority fighter. The unit was chosen to test the new T-48 incendiary round, designed to explode the low grade/high flash point fuels the Germans were using, which resisted ignition by .50-caliber strikes. In April, the 56th flew a series of airfield strafing attacks using the T-48 round, ending with Dade leading 49 P-47Ms to Eggebek airdrome on April 13, 1945, where they found 150 to 200 aircraft parked on the main field and two nearby satellite strips. With the 62nd Fighter Squadron flying top cover at 15,000 feet and the 61st Fighter Squadron orbiting at 10,000 feet, the 63rd Fighter Squadron made the attack. After a pass to suppress ground fire, the squadron made 140 individual passes, claiming 44 destroyed. This was followed by the 61st who made 94 passes and claimed 25 destroyed, with the 62nd then making 105 and claiming 26. One P-47M 44-21134 of the 63rd FS, UN-P, Teacher’s Pet, flown by 1st Lt. William R. Hoffman, was shot down; Hoffman was killed when his parachute failed to open. The mission total was 339 passes, 95 aircraft destroyed, 95 damaged, and more than 78,000 rounds of ammunition expended. Top scorer was 2nd Lt. Randall Murphy of the 63rd FS, who was credited following review of his gun camera film with 10 destroyed. Another strafing mission on April 16, saw the group’s final combat loss when Capt. John W. Appel of the 62nd FS was shot down, though he successfully returned to Allied lines the next day. On April 21st the group flew its final combat mission.

After the war he remained in what soon became the US Air Force. In the summer of 1950, Dade was an Operations Officer with the 2nd Air Division at Landsberg, Germany. He retired in 1969 as a Colonel.
1761 Dahl Jr.Fred R.2nd LieutenantPilot OfficerO-72330811th June 1924AmericanNavigatorUSAAF8th Air Force511th Bomber Squadron (351st Bombardment Group (H))1944-09-12B-17 Dinah MightG42-97318DS-SPolebrook (Station #110), Northamptonshire, EnglandSynthetic Oil Refinery at Ruhland, GermanySee Archive report for detailsKilledRepatriated and interred at the Holy Sepulchre cemetery, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in Section U, Lot No 79, Range 27, Grave No. 1
1762 DahlbergKenneth H 1st LtO-733838USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-06-22P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1763 DahlbergKenneth H 1st LtO-733838USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-06-29P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1764 DahlbergKenneth H 1st LtO-733838USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-08-16P-47 Thunderbolt3 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1765 DahlbergKenneth H 1st LtO-733838USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-09-12P-47 Thunderbolt4 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1766 DahlbergKenneth H CaptainO-733838USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-12-01P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1767 DahlbergKenneth H CaptainO-733838USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-12-19P-47 Thunderbolt3 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1768 DahlbergKenneth H CaptainO-733838USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-12-19P-47 Thunderbolt14Source: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1769 DahlkeGene CSergeantSergeant1602947929th January 1924 in San Francisco, CaliforniaAmericanRight Waist GunnerAM (Oak Leaf Cluster)

USAAF15th Air Force764th Bombardment Squadron (H), 461st Bombardment Group (H)1944-07-25B-24 Winona BelleH42-524598Torretta airfield, ItalyLinz (Mission #116), AustriaSee Archive report for detailsKiARepatriated and interred on the 17th May 1950 at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Section 84, Site 111-113 (Joint Grave),Lemay, Missouri
1770 DahlstromKenneth E 1st LtO-505813USAPilotUSAAF324th Fighter Group314th Fighter Squadron
1944-12-25P-47 Thunderbolt0.25 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1771 DaleJack D Lt ColonelO-401140USAPilotUSAAF364th Fighter Group384th Fighter Squadron
1944-08-15P-38 Lightning (P-51 Mustang mid 1944)1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1772 DaleSam B 2nd LtO-886837USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group63rd Fighter Squadron
1944-06-07P-47 Thunderbolt0.5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1773 DaleJames ‘Jimmy’ Edward1st LieutenantFlying OfficerO-69276710th October 1920 in Enid, OklahomaAmericanPilotUSAAF8th Air Force446th Bombardment Group (H), 707th Bombardment Squadron (H)1944-07-11B-24 Dissipated DuckH42-94994JU:JBungay (Station #125), Suffolk, EnglandMunich (Mission #466), GermanySee Archive report for detailsKilledRepatriated and buried at Memorial Park cemetery, Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma
1774 DaleyWilliam C 1st LtO-430790USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group62nd Fighter Squadron
1944-12-23P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1775 DaleyWilliam C 1st LtO-430790USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group62nd Fighter Squadron
1944-12-25P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1776 DaleyWilliam C 1st LtO-430790USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group62nd Fighter Squadron
1945-01-14P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1777 DaleyVernonLt PILOTUSACo-PilotUSAAF306th Bomber Group367th BomberSqn

1945-02-03Boeing B-17G-55-BO Flying Fortress#42-102547 'Rose of York'GY-FRAF ThurleighBerlin marshalling yardsHit by flakMIA>Delivered Cheyenne 12/3/44; Gr Island 22/3/44; Dow Fd 3/4/44; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 2/5/44; transferred 367BS/306BG [GY-F] Thurleigh 5/5/44. Missing in Action 63M Berlin 3 February 1945. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 12283: Aircraft Commander, Lieutenant Vernon Daley; Co-pilot: 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Carbine; Navigator, 1st Lieutenant Paul Becker; Bombardier/Nose Gunner, Staff Sergeant Robert Crede; Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner, Technical Sergeant Reisel Horn; Radio Operator/Top Gunner, Technical Sergeant Porfirio Marquez; Ball Turret Gunner: Staff Sergeant George Petrillo; Waist gunner, Staff Sergeant Silvio DeZolt; Tail Gunner: Sergeant Okey Coplin; and British Broadcasting Company (BBC) war correspondent Guy Byam (civilian). 10 Killed in Action. Hit by Flak over target and on the return flight. In the last radio contact, the pilot reported that one engine had been shot out and another losing gasoline and that they were headed for the English Coast. Nothing was heard nor found about the Fortress and the men on board, which were considered as having crashed in the Channel, with all men on board Missing In Action. Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 12283. ROSE OF YORK.

1944-07-06 In honour and presence of Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, the Boeing B-17G-55-BO Flying Fortress #42-102547, is christened 'Rose of York' (*). The ceremony is held at USAAF Station 111, RAF Thurleigh. (*) Previously named 'Princess Elizabeth', then 'The Princess', before becoming 'Rose of York' during this baptism. These precautions are taken in order to avoid setbacks to the bomber who would certainly not have been spared by the German fighters who would have glorified the fact of shooting him down... That said, this B-17 was damaged -Two engines lost- during a mission over Berlin on February 3, 1945. Last seen over the North Sea while trying to return. All occupants of the aircraft, including a BBC journalist were missing and presumed killed.


Col Claude Putnam CO with Princess Elizabeth

1778 DalglishJames B MajorO-886127USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-12-17P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1779 DalglishJames B MajorO-886127USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1944-12-26P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1780 DalglishJames B MajorO-886127USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group353rd Fighter Squadron: Cobras
1945-04-16P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1781 DalglishJames B 1st LtO-886127USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group355th Fighter Squadron
1943-12-20P-51 Mustang0.5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1782 DalglishJames B 1st LtO-886127USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group355th Fighter Squadron
1944-01-30P-51 Mustang1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1783 DalglishJames B 1st LtO-886127USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group355th Fighter Squadron
1944-03-06P-51 Mustang1.5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1784 DalglishJames B 1st LtO-886127USAPilotUSAAF354th Fighter Group355th Fighter Squadron
1944-03-16P-51 Mustang1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1785 DalglishJames B 1st LtO-886127USAPilotUSAAF363rd Fighter Group381st Fighter Squadron1944-04-08P-51 Mustang1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1786 DalglishJames B 1st LtO-886127USAPilotUSAAF363rd Fighter Group381st Fighter Squadron1944-04-08P-51 Mustang9Source: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1787 DalvaMorrisTechnical SergeantSergeant32260401AmericanRadio Operator/Air GunnerAM (7 Oak Leaf Clusters)

USAAF12th Air Force83rd Bomber Squadron (12th Bombardment Group (M))1943-03-11B-25C41-13126Gerbini Air Field09:30TransitSee archive report for detailsMissing in ActionTablets of the Missing Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
1788 DamewoodLawrence D 1st LtO-817901USAPilotUSAAF371st Fighter Group406th Fighter Squadron1944-10-03P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1789 DanielGeorge L. Staff Sergeant111068641921AmericanRadio OperatorUSAAF8th Air Force360th Bomber Squadron (303rd Bombardment Group (H))1944-12-30B-17 Woman’s Home CompanionG42-39795PU-EMolesworth (Station #107), Cambridgeshire, EnglandI.G. Farben Chemical Works at Ludwigshafen (Mission #169), GermanySee Archive report for detailsPoW, Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow, Pomerania
1790 DanielRobert J 2nd LtO-767140USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group63rd Fighter Squadron
1944-09-05P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1791 DanielRobert J 1st LtO-767140USAPilotUSAAF56th Fighter Group63rd Fighter Squadron
1944-12-23P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1792 DanielWilliam W 1st LtO-1692662USAPilotUSAAF27th Fighter Group523rd Fighter Squadron
1945-02-25P-47 Thunderbolt`1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1793 DaniellJ S1st LtO-697008USAPilotUSAAF339th Fighter Group: The Chequers505th Fighter Squadron1944-11-26P-51 Mustang5 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1794 DanielsRichard L.2nd LieutenantPilot OfficerO-6793781921AmericanBombardierUSAAF8th Air Force369th Bomber Squadron (306th Bombardment Group (H))1944-02-08B-17 Susan RuthG42-31499WW-?Thurleigh (Station #111), Bedfordshire, EnglandRailroad marshalling yards at Frankfurt, GermanySee Archive report for detailsPow, Oflag 9A/H Spangenberg-Kassel Hessen-Nassau, Germany
1795 DanielsJohn O CaptainO-885225USAPilotUSAAF371st Fighter Group406th Fighter Squadron1944-10-20P-47 Thunderbolt1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1796 DanielsJohn O MajorO-885225USAPilotUSAAF371st Fighter Group406th Fighter Squadron1945-03-01P-47 Thunderbolt2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1797 DannoJames W.Sergeant3920713811th March 1923AmericanBall TurretUSAAF8th Air Force832rd Bomber Squadron (486th Bombardment Group (H))1944-08-04B-17G43-379093R-BSudbury (Station #382), Suffolk, EnglandHamburg, GermanySee Archive report for detailsMurderedRepatriated and Interred on 2 June 1949 at the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Montana
1798 DarganArchie S Jr1st LtO-832355USAPilotUSAAF55th Fighter Group338th Fighter Squadron
1945-03-18P-51 Mustang2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1799 DarlingHenry B JrLt ColonelO00022453USAPilotUSAAF474th Fighter Group1944-07-18P-38 Lightning2 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)
1800 DarlingHenry B JrLt ColonelO00022453USAPilotUSAAF474th Fighter Group1944-10-13P-38 Lightning1 Luftwaffe destroyedSource: afhra.maxwell.af.mil
ETO (European Theatre)

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