506th Fighter Squadron | American Air Museum in Britain

Structure

Part of

404th Fighter Group

Group
A unit history of the 404th Fighter Group is available online as a pdf: http://www.winkton.net/Leap%20Off/LeapOffPdf3.pdf
508th Fighter Squadron

Squadron

Encompassing

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Previously was

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Station	Location	Date
Based	Winkton

William Frost

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...
Robert Huse

Military | First Lieutenant | 404th Fighter Group
Joseph Joyce

Military | 404th Fighter Group
Leo Moon

Military | Colonel | 404th Fighter Group Commander | 404th Fighter Group
From about Aug 1943 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Major Moon was Commanding Officer of the 508th Fighter Squadron. (Wikipedia: 508th Fighter Squadron) ...
Charles Tribken

Military | Captain | Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Erasmus High School graduated 1936 ...
Edwin Wright

Military | Captain | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Edwin Wright flew 88 missions in P-47 Thunderbolts over Europe during WWII. He left the Army in 1946 after the war and was again called up for the Korean Conflict in 1950. He retired from the US Air Force as a Major.

42-22770

P-47 Thunderbolt
42-25720

P-47 Thunderbolt
42-26465

P-47 Thunderbolt
42-28933

P-47 Thunderbolt
42-75098

P-47 Thunderbolt
42-75173

P-47 Thunderbolt
42-8379

P-47 Thunderbolt
42-27221 'I'll Get By'

P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt "I'll Get By" 42-27221 of the 404th Fighter Group, flown by Colonel Leonard C Moon.
42-7884 'Reggie's Reply' / 'Lucky' 'Donnie Boy'

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. ...
42-7959

P-47 Thunderbolt
Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. One-time personal aircraft of Capt James A Goodson. ...

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Date	Contributor	Update
13 March 2015 15:58:57	rossingtonj	Changes to type
Sources
Type added.
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:42:49	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
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)