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Personal info

Full name
ALLEN, John Cecil
Date of birth
6 March 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama
Hometown
Prichard, Mobile County, Alabama

Military service

Service number
O-815629
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
368th Fighter Squadron,
359th Fighter Group
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 August 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Dreux, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 22 11

Immediate family

Members
John H. Allen (father)
Ada E. (Wilkerson) Allen (mother)
Walter L. Allen (brother)
Annie L. Allen (sister)
Ernest D. Allen (brother)
Emmie A. (Hearn) Allen (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-106867
Data
Type: P-51B
Nickname: Pegelin
Destination: Lisieux, France
Mission: Ramrod
MACR: 7783

More information

Capt William C. Forehand:
I was leading white flight on 8 August 1944. At 1350 we spotted approximately twenty-five FW 190’s in the vicinity of Dreux and made a bounce. Lt Allen was flying white two. My element broke into fifteen E/A, and I covered them. Lt Allen dropped back too far in trail, and when we were bounced by approximately thirty more FW 190’s, he was apparently hit. I saw a P-51 streaming smoke go down at 1355. I assumed this to be Lt Allen’s ship.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Solers, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Roberson Family Tree, www.fold3.com – MACR, www.findagrave.com – MAJ Jimmy Cotton

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.ancestry.com - Roberson Family Tree, Arie-Jan van Hees 359th Fighter Group History