Billy Chat Ferguson

Military
media-44462.jpeg UPL 44462 Halcott B. Thomas Crew
95th BG - 335th BS

Standing Left to Right: Gene C. Grime (R/O), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Millard E. McGowan, Jr. (TG), Fred W. Miller (WG)

Kneeling Left to Right: Halcott B. Thomas (P), Benjamin F. Hathaway (B), Bily P. Decherniss (BTG), Donald B. Flygstad (N), Max Bunin (CP)

This was largely the crew that Halcott Thomas finished his tour with, though his original crew had a sunstantially different composition. The crew in the photo had been the Jammie Philpott crew
95th Bomb Group collection

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94123178

Object Number - UPL 44462 - Halcott B. Thomas Crew 95th BG - 335th BS Standing Left to Right: Gene C. Grime (R/O), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Millard E. McGowan, Jr. (TG),...

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Units served with

The insignia of the 95th Bomb Group.

95th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Halcott Bratton Thomas

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-102450

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Paisano
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron

42-97992

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hap Hazard aka Trouble Buggy
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron

43-38283

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron

43-38617

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: New York Express
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron

Missions

896

  • Date: 19 March 1945
  • Official Description:

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Bokchito, OK 23 October 1920

Enlisted

Los Angeles, CA 9 January 1943

Other

95th BG Combat Tour

Horham Airfield, UK 12 October 1944 - 11 April 1944 24 missions

Died

Hawthorne, CA 12 January 1998

Buried

Durant, OK 17 January 1998 Highland Cemetery Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma, USA
Los Angeles, Ca

Revisions

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
ChangesChanges to middlename, service number, highest rank, role, events, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations. Changes to Role of Honour Picture. Changes to Role of Honour Picture
Sources

http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=7732226
https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/2024
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2238/images/43995_03_0…
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=1894967…

Date
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php

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