Name: Don G Andrus
First Name(s): Don G
Last Name: Andrus
Place of birth: New York,
Rank: 1 Lt Pilot
ASN: O-754044
Company: 485th F Sqdrn
Unit: 370th Fighter Grp 9th USAAF
Reported as: KIA
Date of incident: 25-12-1944
Place of incident: Champlon area (Tenneville)
His story: Aircraft Lockheed LIGHTNING type P-38J-15-LO #42-104077, took off from Florennes Air Base, Belgium on December 25, 1944 for a armed reconnaissance mission.
Wing Man 1Lt Don G Andrus was flying in position with Lt Liebert W. Bowyer Jr #2 in Flight Zenith Blanc, in order to identify traffic on a road near P-3970, Champlon region, approximately 36 Miles south of Liège, Belgium. They went down to investigate and received intense and precise shots of light FLAK from the woods surrounding the road. Lt Andrus didn’t come up from his dive.
Lt Bowyer watched the plane crash into the ground and explode. He didn’t saw his Wing Man getting out of his plane. 1 Lt Don G Andrus didn’t return to base.
Destination: Champlon area, Belgium
Mission: Armed Reconnaissance
MACR: 11407
Unit history of 370th Fighter Group
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