402nd Fighter Squadron

Squadron
media-6739.png UPL 6739 First Lieutenant Ian B "Mac" Mackenzie of the 370th Fighter Group with his P-38 Lightning (E6-T, serial number 43-28444) nicknamed "Vivacious Virgin II" in Belgium 1944.

Image Courtesy of Ian B Mackenzie

Object Number - UPL 6739 - First Lieutenant Ian B "Mac" Mackenzie of the 370th Fighter Group with his P-38 Lightning (E6-T, serial number 43-28444) nicknamed "Vivacious Virgin...

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Andover

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 405th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron 511th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19074204 / O-674032
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 405th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Squadron 402nd Fighter Squadron 511th Fighter Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-773604
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 405th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron 511th Fighter Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-763255
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Strictly Stella's Baby Lucky Lady
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
A P-51 Mustang (5Q-H, serial number 44-14070) of the 339th Fighter Group in snow at Bassingbourn, January 1945. Image by Dale J Darling, 91st Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '5Q:H 414070 Bassingbourn, 1/45.'
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 339th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron 504th Fighter Squadron
French countryside, photographed through the nose of a P-38 Lightning of the 367th Fighter Group on landing. Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 30 Aug 1944.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 31 May 1945.' [stamp] and '354528 .' [censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'P-38s over the Seine. No.1 of a series of pix taken through the nose of the P-38 as it comes in to land. Scherschel LIFE.'
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Sierra Sue II
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron

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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)

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