Lt. Bill Lewis Comes Home - Page 02
| Bill Lewis was a P-51 pilot assigned to the 55th Fighter Group. On Sept. 11, 1944, the 55th was assigned to escort the 100th Bomb Group on a bombing mission to Ruhland, Germany. Short of the target, over Oberhof Germany, Lewis and others from his group were engaged by German fighters. The details of the loss are not known, but Lt.. Lewis' P-51 was last seen nose-diving into a forest. It was one of 57 U.S. aircraft reported lost that day in one of the largest air battles of the European theater. |
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