Fleming Lawrence J Lt

Assigned Aircraft

Not Known

Mission History

38 Missions, 197 hours

Mission List

55th FG Mission #	Date	Target
305	14 January 1945	Magdeburg (flew as Yellow 2)
306	15 January 1945	Suttgart (flew as White 2)
307	16 January 1945	Dessau (flew as White 2)
309	21 January 1945	Mannheim (flew as Yellow 2)
311	29 January 1945	Kassel Henschel (flew as White 2)
312	01 February 1945	Mannheim/Strasbourg (flew as spare)
313	03 February 1945	Berlin (flew as Yellow 2)
315	09 February 1945	Weimar (flew as Yellow 2)
316	10 February 1945	Kampen, Holland (flew as spare)
317	14 February 1945	Merseberg (flew as Blue 4)
319	17 February 1945	Frankfurt (flew as Red 4)
321	20 February 1945	Nurnberg (flew as White 2)
325	24 February 1945	Bremen (flew as Red 4)
327	25 February 1945	Koblenz (flew as Yellow 4)
328	26 February 1945	Berlin (flew as Blue 2)
329	27 February 1945	Leipzig (flew as White 2)
330	28 February 1945	Munich (flew as White 2)
364	16 April 1945	Salzburg

Air Scores

0-0-0

Ground Scores

1-0

Score Detail

16 April 1945 Do-217 destroyed (ground) Munich-Brunnthal Landing Ground

Notes

Lt. Fleming was born in 1922, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he graduated from high school in 1941. He then attended St. Norbert's College, West DePere, Wisconsin. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in November 1942 and began his active military career in January 1943 as an aviation cadet. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and received his pilot wings in Jackson, Mississippi, in March 1944, and then attended P-40 pilot training.
ASN - 0-825420
21 December 1944 - Assigned to the 55th Fighter Group at Station 159
06 January 1945 - Joined the 38th Fighter Squadron
February 1945 - Awarded the Air Medal
10 March 1945 - Promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to 1st Lieutenant
July 1946 - Returned to the 55th Fighter Group (redesignated the 31st Fighter Group) in Germany, as part of the occupation forces, to serve as the group gunnery officer and flew P-80 aircraft at Giebelstadt and Kitzingen.

Passed away on 02nd September 2006

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