Richard P Gatterdam

Military
media-24380.jpeg UPL 24380 Maj. Dick Gatterdam 20th FG

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Object Number - UPL 24380 - Maj. Dick Gatterdam 20th FG

3 FW 190, 1 Me 109, 2 1/2 HE115, 1/2 ME 210

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Units served with

Aircraft

44-14003

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Kentucky Kernel V Puddin Danny Boy
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 356th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

San Francisco, California
London, OH 43140, USA

Enlisted

Revisions

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ContributorLucy May
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Sources

Brought in connections to squadrons from duplicate record. Source:
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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Contributorfugari
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ContributorAAM
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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

Richard P Gatterdam: Gallery (3 items)

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

Object number: FRE 60 - Pilots of the 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter...

Object number: UPL 24380 - Maj. Dick Gatterdam 20th FG

Object number: UPL 33090 - Captain Richard P. Gatterdam with ground crew...