8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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42-22548
P-47 Thunderbolt
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Major Edward J. Gignac's P-47 Thunderbolt (PZ-G, serial number 42-22548), named "Gig's-Up", after a landing accident at Bodney air base, 11 February 1944. Gignac was a pilot with the 486th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group.
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Captain Edward J. Gignac of the 486th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, beside his aircraft, P-47 Thunderbolt (PZ-G, serial number 42-22548), named "Gig's-Up". 1943 - June 1944.
Service
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352nd Fighter Group
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The 352nd Fighter Group were based at Bodney, Norfolk from July 1943 until November 1945 but in the winter months of 1944/1945 detachments moved to bases in Belgium to provide extra air support to ground forces during the Battle of the Bulge and to... -
406th Fighter Group
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486th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Edward Gignac
Military | Major | Fighter Pilot | 352nd Fighter Group
Edward Gignac was one of the top ski jumpers in the country pre-war, and had lived in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He attended Kimball Union Academy and Middlebury College, both in skiing scholarships. Enlisting in the Air Corps in April 1941, he served in...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Failed to Return (FTR) | France | 11 September 1944 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 31 October 2017 17:28:48 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, unit associations and person associations |
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http://littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-22548&Submit=Search |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 06 November 2014 11:15:52 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nicknames |
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USAF photo |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:17 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 9123 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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