8th Air Force 575FE

26 August 1944

Mission Details

Description: FIGHTER ESCORT

Notes: Specific units not correlated in source data

Mission Statistics

  • Tonnage Dropped: NA

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People

Samuel David Gevorkian

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 55th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19129971 and O-760284
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Samuel Hansard

Samuel Eugene Hansard

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 339th Fighter Group 55th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron 505th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 38071981 / O-754619
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

John Edwin Kester

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 55th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12200823 and O-824644
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Aircraft

44-13715

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Little Lady
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 55th Fighter Squadron

44-14050

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 55th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron

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Sources

Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'.