404th Fighter Group
Group
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Squadron
Group
A unit history of the 404th Fighter Group is available online as a pdf:
http://www.winkton.net/Leap%20Off/LeapOffPdf3.pdf
Squadron
Station | Location | Date |
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Based | Winkton |
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Credited with two enemy aircraft destroyed.
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Military | Major | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Shot down on his 43rd combat mission
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Army Air Force 1st Lt. Robert G. Fenstermacher, of Scranton, was a P-47D pilot who crashed in Belgium in December 1944 during an armed-reconnaissance mission against targets in Germany. He was 23.
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Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Assigned to 506FS, 404FG, 8AF USAAF. "During an early familiarisation flight with a fully loaded P47C [41-6529], 1st Lt William Frost had to carry out an emergency return to the airfield, having notified the field controller that he had a fuel leak and...
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Flew 43 combat missions
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt "I'll Get By" 42-27221 of the 404th Fighter Group, flown by Colonel Leonard C Moon.
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47D Thunderbolt 42-7884, was 2nd Lt John Godfrey's first 'REGGIE'S REPLY', which he inherited from his future flight leader 1st Lt. Don Gentile.
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Date | Contributor | Update |
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13 March 2015 15:58:57 | rossingtonj | Changes to type |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:42:49 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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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) |