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Joseph L Mansker

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media-27400.jpeg UPL 27400 Capt Joe Mansker 20th FG

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Object Number - UPL 27400 - Capt Joe Mansker 20th FG

3 air and 7 ground kills

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Official emblem of the 20th Fighter Group, approved 26 November 1942

20th Fighter Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

Pilots of the 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, stand around a map at Kings Cliffe air base before mission over northern France, October 1943. L to R: First Lieutenant Merle B. Nichols, Seattle, Wash.; Major Nathaniel H. Blanton, Earlsboro, Oklahoma and First Lieutenant Richard P. Gatterdam, Columbus, Ohio. Censor has drawn lines across the map. Each of these pilots went on to command one of the squadrons of the 20th Fighter Group. Gatterdam commanded the 55th Fighter Squadron, Nichols the 77th a

55th Fighter Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

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Date19 Mar 2024 18:33:23

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Removed extra info in the "Role/job" field.

Date20 Apr 2017 06:27:39

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Date27 Sep 2014 18:17:26

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / King's Cliffe Memorial Edition

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Object number: UPL 27400 - Capt Joe Mansker 20th FG