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Frederick J. "Rat Top" Christensen, Jr.
  Last Wartime rank: Captain
Unit(s):
- 62nd Fighter Squadron
-- 56th Fighter Group
--- 8th Air Force
Theatre(s): ETO
Decorations:
DSC
Silver Star
DFC
Air Medal
Victories:
21.5 Air
Assigned Combat Aircraft:
P-47D, "Rozzi Geth"

P-47D-25-RE
LM*C, "Miss Fire/Rozzi Geth II"
SN: 42-26628

SERVICE:
Assigned as replacement pilot at Atcham, Shrewsbury, England, Summer 1943
Assigned to 62nd FS/56th FG, August 27, 1943
Returned to U.S.A., September 1944
Post-War served as Colonel, Massachusetts Air National Guard

NOTES:
First 8th Air Force pilot to destroy 6 enemy aircraft in one mission, July 7, 1944.

Sources:
Artwork by Rocky Gooch.
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