Operation: Ferry flight
Date: 19th January 1944 (Wednesday)
Unit: 13th Squadron, 7th Photographic Group.
Type: P38/F5
Serial: 42-67368
Coded: ?
Location: Watlington
Pilot: 2nd Lt. Earl Vann Skiff. 0-746201 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) Augered into tree tops near Greenfield Farm, just over a mile south east of Watlington. Reason unknown.
BURIAL DETAILS:
2nd Lt Earl V Skiff was first buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, England, 5108 North, 9th Avenue. In January 1949 he was repatriated to the U.S.A. and now rest in peace, at Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama.
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