Ralph S Davison

Military

Completed 28 combat missions with 92nd BG on April 27, 1944. Assigned to the 401st BG/ 614th BS with crews to operate a radio relay B-17 ('Mohair' Relay) in support of 1st Air Division Fighter Groups' operational missions from Deenethorpe until July 1944. Assigned on TDY basis July 1944 with crews and aircraft to 364th FG at Honington to continue Relay missions until late February 1945. Returned to ZI in March 1945.



DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The insignia of the 92nd Bomb Group.

92nd Bomb Group

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

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Danville, Illinois 8 February 1921

Other

Detached Service 364th Fighter Group

Enlisted

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Information provided by Major Davison's son.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list / self