(F. Birtciel)
2/Lt. Maynard R. King
(F. Birtciel)
2/Lt. Maynard R. King
343rd FS August 1944 - 10 September 1944 (Killed in Action)
| Assigned Aircraft |
P-51D 44-13843 |
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| Mission History |
Not Known |
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| Air Scores | 0-0-0 | |||||||||
| Ground Scores | 1-1 | |||||||||
| Score Detail | 05 September 1944 Ju-87 destroyed (ground)
Goppingen 05 September 1944 Me-110 damaged (ground) Goppingen |
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| Notes | Entered service from Grand Rapids, Michigan. ASN O-824647 MACR No. 08558 1/Lt. Paul R. Porter reported: "Sept. 10, 1944, while on an escort mission to Nuremberg, Germany, Captain Parker's flight, Tudor Blue, with Lt. Maynard R. King, wingman to Lt. Lawrence, element leader, and I, number 4 man, went down to the deck between 1210 and 1220 to strafe an airdrome on which we had sighted enemy A/C. The airfield was about 20 miles NW of Nuremberg near Herzogenaurach, 49 degrees 35 minutes N - 10 degrees 55 minutes East. We were making our pass from SE to NW right on the deck and were spread out almost line abreast. We were met with plenty of flak, light stuff, which seemed to come mostly from the NW corner of the field in the vicinity of a hangar. As I peeled up to the right off the field, my eye caught Lt. King's ship just as the left wing and prop tore off. I am sure this was due to flak. He somersaulted or cart-wheeled and crashed into the hangar, going right in the open front, causing quite an explosion inside. I'm sure he must have been hit by flak from enemy field positions."
German J2064 reported 2/Lt. Maynard King found dead. Burial:
Cemetery Kitsingen. |
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