360th Fighter Squadron
Squadron![Playford Hall, Suffolk. Image via Herbert Rutland, 356th Fighter Group. Written on slide casing: 'Playford Hall '45, 360th FS, 356th FG.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/freeman/media-388119.jpg)
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 6079 - Playford Hall, Suffolk. Image via Herbert Rutland, 356th Fighter Group. Written on slide casing: 'Playford Hall '45, 360th FS, 356th FG.'
Commanding Officers
![John W Vogt of the 56th Fighter Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-456748.jpg?itok=_-CilXIQ)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 56th Fighter Group Headquarters Squadron (356th Fighter Group) 360th Fighter Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron Headquarters (65th Fighter Wing)
- Service Numbers: 12029380 / O-659342
- Highest Rank: General
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot / Commander / CIC of U.S. Pacific & European Air Forces
Connections
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
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Based |
Martlesham Heath |
Encompassing
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron 361st Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-826801
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Armament
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-886087
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot, Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Master Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineering
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Barbara
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 55th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron 360th Fighter Squadron
![Lieutenant Herbert R Rutland Jr of the 356th Fighter Group with his P-51 Mustang (PI-R, serial number 44-72139). Written on slide casing: 'England, 1945 Herb himself (Herb Rutland).'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-388125.jpg?itok=vOt6jKO9)
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)