William J Shackelford
Military
Left to right, back row:
Howard Spaulding, Herbert Boelter, David Morgan, James Eason, Murray Bell, Eugene Cole, David Edwards, William Shackelford, William Kemp, William McCoppin, Maynard Emlaw, Dustin Cowle, William Gill, Eugene Gentzler and Bruce Rowlett
Left to right, second row:
Charles Narvis and Joseph Kapr
Left to right, third row:
Raymond Comer, Alton Snyder, Robert Adams, Sherman Armsby, Robert Wright, Warren Ewert, John Black, Roswell Freedman (Squadron Commander), James Hall and Urban Drew
Left to right, fourth row:
James Donohue, William Rogers, John Thomas, Russell Sobieski, Merle Rainey, Dean Morehouse, Elroy Neely, Francis Glankler
Left to right, fifth row: Charles Cummins, 'Snitz' and Martin Johnson
Museum object reference no. BAM_0308 Bottisham Airfield Museum
Amended formatting of caption to make it easier to work out who is who.
Object Number - UPL 18345 - 375th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group. Bottisham, mid-July 1944. Left to right, back row: Howard Spaulding, Herbert Boelter, David...
P-47D #42-75096 overshot the runway on landing and nosed over on return from an operational mission on 5 Feb 1944
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Queen Jean
- Unit: 361st Fighter Group 374th Fighter Squadron 375th Fighter Squadron
Events
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
