5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
Squadron
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FRE 3093
A P-47 Thunderbolt (5F-L, serial number 42-6410) of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron takes off.
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
---|---|---|
Based |
Boxted | 1 May 1944 - 16 January 1945 |
Based |
Halesworth | 16 January 1945 |
Previously was
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 359th Fighter Group 496th Fighter Training Group 369th Fighter Squadron 555th Fighter Training Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron Headquarters (496th Fighter Training Group)
- Service Numbers: O-812792
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-886960 / T-190911
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot, Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 56th Fighter Group 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-697021
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 361st Fighter Group 376th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-811901
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 359th Fighter Group 368th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Bundle of Joy
- Unit: 352nd Fighter Group 486th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Galloping Catastrophe
- Unit: 65th Fighter Wing 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Primrose Peggy
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Squadron 369th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Liquidator / Quaker - Sad Sack / Miss Margaret
- Unit: 56th Fighter Group 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron
Revisions
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia