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Mission: Ferry flight

Date: 19th January 1944.

Unit: 22nd Squadron, 7th Photographic Group.

Type: P38/F5

Serial: 42-67378.

Coded: ?

Location: West Wycombe, Bucks.

Pilot: 1st. Lt. Wendel Blickensderfer. 02044634. U.S.A.A.F. Killed.

REASON FOR LOSS:

Took-off from Honiton airfield on ferry flight to base, Mount Farm, Oxfordshire. (Station No.234) Aircraft crashed in bad weather into Depot/ signal box at West Wycombe Station, reason unknown.

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7th PG F5.

22 PHOTO SQUADRON_1 Wendel Blickensderfer P38_1
Mount Farm. (Station No.234.)

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1st Lt Blickensderfer with his F5

Grave  Lt. Wendel Blickensderfer
Grave (Courtesy Mike Harrison)

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BURIAL DETAILS:

1st Lt. Wendel Blickensderfer is buried at The Cambridge American Cemetery, England. Plot D. Row 3. Grave 93. Please also click "here"

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