310th Ferry Squadron

Squadron
A P-51 Mustang (VQ-C_, serial number 43-12425) of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group . Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: 'VII FC Tec' ops. VQ-C_.' media-394933.jpg FRE 7524 A P-51 Mustang (VQ-C_, serial number 43-12425) used as a hack plane by the 310th Ferry Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group at Mount Farm.

Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: 'VII FC Tec' ops. VQ-C_.' Roger Freeman Collection

Caption updated based on research conducted by Ted Damick and Peter Randall

Object Number - FRE 7524 - A P-51 Mustang (VQ-C_, serial number 43-12425) used as a hack plane by the 310th Ferry Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group at Mount Farm. Image by...

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Warton

People

Chester D Bright

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 310th Ferry Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39909510
  • Highest Rank: Corporal
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Alphonse V Cogozzo

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 310th Ferry Squadron 321st Air Transport Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Corporal
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Charles B Congdon

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 310th Ferry Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-794470
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Burl J Creech

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 310th Ferry Squadron 87th Air Transport Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-664143
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Frank Allen Cutler

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 352nd Fighter Group 310th Ferry Squadron 486th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-732179
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Aircraft

43-6840

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 4th Fighter Group 310th Ferry Squadron 336th Fighter Squadron
A P-51 Mustang (VF-L, serial number 44-14350) of the 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '336th F.S., 4th F.G., 8th Air Force.'

44-14350

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Connie II
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 4th Fighter Group 310th Ferry Squadron 336th Fighter Squadron

44-14551

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group Base Air Depot 2 310th Ferry Squadron

P3757

  • Aircraft Type: Hurricane
  • Unit: Headquarters Squadron (VIII Air Force Service Command) VIII Air Force Service Command 27th Air Transport Group 310th Ferry Squadron 87th Air Transport Squadron

P6819

  • Aircraft Type: Oxford
  • Unit: 27th Air Transport Group 310th Ferry Squadron

Revisions

Date
Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
Changes
Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia.

Updates and amendments to associations from:
- www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/documents/US-units-June-44.doc
List supplied courtesy of Mr Phil Grinton from California, February 2004. From the website of the D-Day Museum, Portsmouth (www.ddaymuseum.co.uk).

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
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)

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