First blood in the Air
Capt. Uno Salmi of the 406FS claimed a Luftwaffe FW-190 in the 371FG’s first day of air combat in Europe. He went Missing in Action on June 16, 1944, near St. Lo, France. He is remembered on the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England. (Courtesy “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the E.T.O.”)
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