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Bottom right William Pelto KIA Marianas 25-01-1944 Tuesday PB4Y-2 Consolidated Privateer

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Communication group of the 369th FS East Wrethem

East Wretham was not improved to Class A standard. It retained its shorter runways, although eventually pierced-steel planking was laid to make take offs and landings easier for the Thunderbolt, and then Mustang, pilots. Steel matting was also laid to fashion more aircraft parking spaces on a site with only 27 hardstands. The 359th Fighter Group were based here between December 1943 and April 1945. East Wretham | American Air Museum

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Lt. Günter Schmidt of 2./NJG5 and his radio/gunner, Uffz. Hans Leyendecker, were posted missing on 20 February 1944 when their Bf 110 G-4 WNr 5440 C9+AK did not return from a day battle against the 8th Air Force (that started its "Big Week" this day).

No loss place is known but the gunner was washed ashore on March 1944, so this crew was lost at sea, probably in the North Sea put possibly in the Baltic (given the base of I./NJG 5 then and the USAAF targets this day, both are possible).

Source:
Michael Balss NJG losses book Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum - View Single Post - Lt. Günther Schmidt of NJG 5

20-02-1944 Sunday

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Peter Stock, Feldwebel und Jagdflieger Pilot der 2. Staffel der Jagdgruppe Ost, gefallen am 30. Juli 1943 bei Absturz ca. 3 km westlich Flugplatz Laleu (in See zwischen Île-de-Ré und La Rochelle), Frankreich, und in La Rochelle beerdigt

30-07-1943 Friday

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RAF Beaufighter V8254 Navigator Dennis Gosling DFC

Beaufighter Mk.VIF V8254 (WM-V), crew W/O Ladislav Bobek – F/Sgt Bohuslav Kovařík, 68Sqn. This crew were credited one Do 217 destroyed on 1 August 1942 01-08-1942 Saturday

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