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Submitted: 8/20/20 • Approved: 8/20/20 • Last Updated: 8/23/20 • R277001-G0-S3
FIRST LIEUTENANT US Army Air Force
434 Fighter Squadron 479 Fighter Group
World War II
December 7, 1919 - July 19, 1945
Air Medal with Four Oak Leaf Clusters
On April 25, 1945, Lieutenant Thompson is credited with shooting down the last Nazi plane over Munich, Germany while escorting an Allied bombing raid on the Skoda Munitions Works at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. He was flying a P-51 during the mission. On July 19, 1945, during a training mission he crashed over the English Channel.
His name is listed on Tablets Of The Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, American Battle Monuments Commission
World War II Honor List of Dead And Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel, 1946, The National Archives
Contributed on 8/20/20 by bridges1026
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