Oscar the Parson Russell Terrier
Mascot
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UPL 21036
PFc. Pat(ricia), Lt. Walt Foster, and Pfc. Oscar
Loan/Athies Airfield, France
323rd BG
456th BS
16 December 1944 Walter E Foster collection
Loan/Athies Airfield, France
323rd BG
456th BS
16 December 1944 Walter E Foster collection
JMF
Oscar makes a cameo appearance in the 1943 video of a 323rd mission. He's over by the bicycles parked soon the side of the Situation Room, which was across the road and up a little bit from the grouping of officers' quarters at Site No. 13 at Earls Colne Airfield, where he lived and generally hung out.
Oscar made the trip with the airmen to Beaulieu, Lessay, Charles, Laon, and probably other stations. He was the first in a long line of Parson Russell Terriers in the Foster family.
Asked whom Oscar and Pat slept with at Laon (where it was bitterly cold and wet), Lt. Foster said, "Anybody who'd let him up on their cot, so basically, all of us."
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Mascot
- Unit: 323rd Bomb Group 456th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Private First Class
- Role/Job: Flight Surgeon/Pet
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 323rd Bomb Group 456th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Bombardier