USAAF
5th AF
8th FG
80th FS
Pilot George Neater (KIA) Council Bluffs, Iowa
Crashed July 11, 1943
Pilot History
George Neater joined the 80th FS in July 1942.
Mission History
While detached to fly from Vivigani Airfield on Goodenough Island, this P-38 accidentally hit a truck while buzzing the field and crashed.
Norbert "Norb" Ruff recalls in Ruff Stuff, page 127-128:
"A real nice, quite gentleman and a good officer born in Iowa. Flew a lot of missoins in P-39s. As I remember he was flying Griffin's wing while in a two ship formation. Neater broke the rule of always flying like your element leader. They were buzzing the strip and he got a little below Griffin and took a palm tree before hitting a truck.
References
Ruff Stuff page 127-128
P-38
