Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (20th Fighter Group)

Squadron

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Kings Cliffe

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 79th Fighter Squadron Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (20th Fighter Group)
  • Service Numbers: 19051083 / O-423798
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 14th Fighter Group 20th Fighter Group 55th Fighter Group 49th Fighter Squadron 77th Fighter Squadron Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (20th Fighter Group) Headquarters (20th Fighter Group) Headquarters (55th Fighter Group)
  • Service Numbers: O-659814
  • Highest Rank: Major General
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot/deputy group commander
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: VIII Fighter Command 67th Fighter Wing 20th Fighter Group Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (20th Fighter Group) Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (VIII Fighter Command) Headquarters (67th Fighter Wing)
  • Service Numbers: O-393137
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Captain George Wemyss explains a manoeuvre to First Lieutenant Richard T. Bund, First Lieutenant Terry M. Williams and First Lieutenant William J. Kermes of the 20th Fighter Group, at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 77th Fighter Squadron Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (20th Fighter Group)
  • Service Numbers: O-496075
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot; Flight Commander
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 55th Fighter Squadron Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (20th Fighter Group)
  • Service Numbers: O-762375
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: P51 Pilot Bomber Escort

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Sources

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)