360th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
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FRE 6079
Playford Hall, Suffolk. Image via Herbert Rutland, 356th Fighter Group. Written on slide casing: 'Playford Hall '45, 360th FS, 356th FG.'
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Commanding Officers
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 56th Fighter Group Headquarters Squadron (356th Fighter Group) 360th Fighter Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron Headquarters (65th Fighter Wing)
- Service Numbers: 12029380 / O-659342
- Highest Rank: General
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot / Commander / CIC of U.S. Pacific & European Air Forces
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
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Based |
Martlesham Heath |
Encompassing
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineering
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron 359th Fighter Squadron 360th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18049503 / O-431857
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Armament
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Role/Job: Armament
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2045083 / T-223050
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Squirt
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Florida Gator
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Nashville Belle
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
Revisions
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Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)