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Alex Smart Total Posts : 979 Reward points : 733 Joined: 09/07/2002 Status: offline	Reply to message Message Options Seeking August losses 1944 - 01/24/2008 08:26:20 AM Hi, Seeking the Pilots names and Fate for the following aircraft lost in August 1944. 42-13310 42-68251 42-13309 Many thanks Alex

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RE: Seeking August losses 1944 - 01/24/2008 10:32:28 AM

Alex,

Here is what I was able to find out:

42-13310
Date: 8/16/44
Pilot: 1st. Lt. Reginald Wayne French
Plane: P38 Lightening
Plane crashed, Prisoner of War

42-68251
Date: 8/20/44
Pilot: 2nd Lt. Curtis L. Willis
Plane: F-5B Photo Recon
Mission: Possible radio contact but signal was jammed. Failed to return/MIA.

42-13309
Date: 8/25/44
Pilot: Jerald Jensen
Plane: P38
Mission: Shot down, instantly killed.

Steve

Alex Smart Total Posts : 979 Reward points : 733 Joined: 09/07/2002 Status: offline	Reply to message Message Options RE: Seeking August losses 1944 - 01/24/2008 10:41:28 AM Hello Steve, Thanks again for the info. Do you know where Jensen and Willis were found ? Thank you Alex

spsct Total Posts : 47 Reward points : 410 Joined: 06/05/2007 Status: offline	Reply to message Message Options RE: Seeking August losses 1944 - 01/24/2008 11:31:04 AM Alex, Jensen was lost in the Florence, Italy area. Willis was lost in the Genoa, Turin area.... BTW - Did you get parts 1&2?

Alex Smart Total Posts : 979 Reward points : 733 Joined: 09/07/2002 Status: offline	Reply to message Message Options RE: Seeking August losses 1944 - 01/25/2008 05:37:07 AM Hello Steve, Parts 1 & 2 arrived Many thanks The crew names do not meet the name given. So there must be a story there. Many thanks Alex

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RE: Seeking August losses 1944 - 01/25/2008 03:48:14 PM

I have
42-13309 F-5A-10-LO   Jensen, Gerald/?  3rd Photo Recon Gp 15AF 25 Aug 1944 DUKO (Italy) MACR #7995

42-13310 F-5A-10-LO   French, Reginald Wayne, 1st.Lt. /Pow  3rd Photo Recon Gp 15AF 16 Aug 1944
DUKO (Meditrn) MACR #8008

42-68251 F-5B-1-LO   Willis, Curtis L., 2nd.Lt. /Mia  3rd Photo Recon Gp 15AF 20 Aug 1944 DUKO (Italy) MACR #8009

Terry T.

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