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1st Service Group

Group

Structure

Part of
  • 355th Fighter Group

    355th Fighter Group

    Group
    Where the 353rd Fighter Group had pioneered ground strafing techniques, it was the 355th Fighter Group who destroyed more enemy aircraft by ground strafing than any other Eighth Air Force Group. Based at Steeple Morden from July 1943 to July 1945, the...

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Stations

Station Location Date
Based Bodney
Based Steeple Morden

Connections

People

Aircraft

  • AP468

    Oxford
    Airspeed Oxford AP468, assigned to 5th Service Squadron, 1st Service Group, 8AF USAAF. Take Off Accident Engine Failure Debden/Sta 356 Cat 5 damage, pilot Lt Thomas H Warth, 23-Jul-44. Taxied out for takeoff, checked both engines and they checked OK on...

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Air Force
8th
Type
Service or support
Type category
Supply
Nicknames
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Insignia
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Revisions

Date Contributor Update
02 December 2019 16:36:28 Emily Changes to type, unit part of associations and unit encompassing associations
Sources

Freeman, Mighty Eighth War Manual, p130
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:42:44 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / 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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