355th Fighter Squadron
354th Fighter Group, 9th US Air Force

January 2,1945

P-47D of the 355th Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group after a forced landing at Bigonville, Luxembourg during mission # 346.

This plane was originally identified as being flown by Lt. Col. Marshal Cloke as recorded on the memorial at Bigonville but after some research and going over the mission schedules for January 1 and January 2 it shows that this plane was flown by Lt. Robert M. Lamar. Lt. Lamar flew GQ-Q on the mission he flew on January 1,1945 and both missions he flew on January 2, 1945, in fact he flew GQ-Q on most missions he flew in a P47D.

This aircraft P-47D serial number 42-29203 departed the U.S. on October 2,1944 for SOXO (England). It was later condemned by the Ninth Air Force as missing in action on January 2, 1945, flown as reported in the daily mission schedules by Lt. Robert M. Lamar on both mssions over Bastone.

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This info copied from 354th Fighter Group with kind permission of Gene Lamar