507th Fighter Group
Group
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UPL 7163
Ray L. Tarte, Jr, P-47N Thunderbolt Pilot, USAAF, 8th Air Force, 301st Fighter Wing, 507th Fighter Group, 465th Sq., Ie Shima, Pacific Theater, WWII, On one mission, August 9, 1945, Ray flew as a fighter escort* for the Nagasaki atomic bomb mission. He personally saw the Nagasaki mushroom cloud come up through the clouds from about 25 or 30 miles away after the atomic bomb exploded.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 507th Fighter Group 464th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 507th Fighter Group 463rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 708661
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 507th Fighter Group 56th Fighter Group 463rd Fighter Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2045114, T-223051
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 507th Fighter Group 463rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2059841
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 507th Fighter Group
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Elsie
- Unit: 404th Fighter Group 507th Fighter Group
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia