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Andrew Mamedoff
Flight lieutenant Andrew Beck Mamedoff (12 August 19128 October 1941), known as Andy, was an American pilot who flew with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain in World War II. He was one of 11 American〔(Battle of Britain - Roll of Honour )〕 pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command between 10 July and 31 October 1940, thereby qualifying for the Battle of Britain clasp to the 1939–45 campaign star.
==Biography==
Born in Thompson, Connecticut, where his White Russian family had settled in the early 1910s.〔Alex Kershaw, World War II Magazine Volume 25, No.4 November/December 2010, pp.36〕 Interestingly, it is believed that he was Jewish of Russian heritage.〔https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/sugar4.html〕 Mamedoff attended Bryant College in the early 1930s.〔(MAMEDOFF, ANDREW "ANDY" )〕
He had learned to fly in the USA and even had his own plane with which he performed at airshows.〔http://www.bbm.org.uk/Mamedoff.htm〕 He and Eugene Tobin had been flying friends at Mines Field in California before the war.〔Alex Kershaw, World War II Magazine Volume 25, No.4 November/December 2010, pp.36〕 He was attempting to set up charter services in Miami immediately prior to the war. Mamedoff initially came to Europe to fight on the side of Finland against the Soviet Union, but hostilities had ceased before he arrived.〔http://www.the-battle-of-britain.co.uk/pilots/To-pilots.html〕
In 1941 Mamedoff married an English woman, Alys Laird "Penny" Mamedoff (née Craven〔http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2667710〕) at Epping. He became the first of the Americans to take a war bride during World War II.〔http://www.geocities.ws/rafeaglesquadron/wedding.html〕
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