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Originally Posted by Peter Randall
Henk,
I've often wondered how they came up with some of the "assigned" a/c in "Escort to Berlin" and thought that you might like to see the variety that Capt. Henwick flew during his TDY with the 334th FS. Can't understand how they could say that QP-M was assigned to him. Just hope that my tabs work so that the following data is readable!
1944
20 July White 2 QP-S
22 July White 2 QP-O
28 July Red 2 QP-S
31 July QP- Early return – rough engine. Position and a/c unknown
01 Aug Red 2 QP-F
02 Aug White 4 QP-M
05 Aug Red 4 QP-F
08 Aug White 4 QP-D
09 Aug White 2 QP-D
10 Aug Green 4 QP-D
13 Aug Red 3 QP-I
16 Aug Blue 4 QP-J
24 Aug Green 4 QP-Z
25 Aug Red 4 QP-A F.O. 529 Early return – glass tube to tank broke
25 Aug Blue 1 QP-W F.O. 531
27 Aug Blue 4 QP-D
01 Sep Spare 1 QP-Q F.O. 543
01 Sep Blue 3 QP-T F.O. 546
05 Sep Green 3 QP-K
08 Sep Spare 2 QP-D
09 Sep Red 3 QP-G
11 Sep Green 3 QP-G Landed A-71 Clastres
13 Sep Red 3 QP-D
19 Sep Green 3 QP-Q
25 Sep Spare 1 QP-M Crash-landed near Casteljaloux, France - out of gas.
05 Oct White 3 QP-D
07 Oct Green 2 QP-E
09 Oct Blue 3 QP-A
12 Oct Red 3 QP-L
25 Oct Detached service finished.
Hope that this is of interest to you.
Peter
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Peter - the 4th Gp exchange seems to coincide exactly with Warren Peglar and Lionel Frost TDY to 355th for 60+ days from RAF.
Same outcome. Neither were assigned a specific ship from the 354FS and 358FS throughout their assignment.
Interestingly Peglar had four air and one ground credit while dad was 354FS CO to become an 8th AF 'combined' ace - which I think is unique for the RAF/RCAF exchange pilots to 8th AF.