Andover

Airfield
Aerial photograph of Andover airfield looking south, 25 September 1945. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/839. English Heritage (RAF Photography). eh-151.jpg RAF_106G_UK_839_RP_3082 Aerial photograph of Andover airfield looking south, 25 September 1945. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/839. English Heritage (RAF Photography). Historic England

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Object Number - RAF_106G_UK_839_RP_3082 - Aerial photograph of Andover airfield looking south, 25 September 1945. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/839. English...

Andover was built in the First World War and used by the Royal Flying Corps, then the RAF. Home to the 370th Fighter Group in 1944, it was then handed back to the RAF. The airfield closed in 1976, and the site has since been used by the British Army.

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: O-789887
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
Lieutenant Herb Forman of the 370th Fighter Group at Andover. Handwritten caption on reverse: '1st Lt Herb Forman- KIA, looking West at Andover Field.'
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-807304
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 486th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-26279
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 485th Fighter Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-763232
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Aircraft

French countryside, photographed through the nose of a P-38 Lightning of the 367th Fighter Group on landing. Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 30 Aug 1944.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 31 May 1945.' [stamp] and '354528 .' [censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'P-38s over the Seine. No.1 of a series of pix taken through the nose of the P-38 as it comes in to land. Scherschel LIFE.'
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
French countryside, photographed through the nose of a P-38 Lightning of the 367th Fighter Group on landing. Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 30 Aug 1944.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 31 May 1945.' [stamp] and '354528 .' [censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'P-38s over the Seine. No.1 of a series of pix taken through the nose of the P-38 as it comes in to land. Scherschel LIFE.'
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Bomba Dear
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 485th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Sierra Sue II
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron 401st Fighter Squadron

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Sources

Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then and Now (London, 1994)

Chris Ashworth, Action Stations 9: Military Airfields of the Central South and South-east (Cambridge, 1985)

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