383rd Fighter Squadron
Squadron
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FRE 549
Three P-38 Lightnings: (N2-K, serial number 42-67978) nicknamed "Betty A II", (N2-A_) and a comrade, of the 383rd Fighter Squadron, 364th Fighter Group fly over countryside. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'P-38 Lightnings.'
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
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Based |
Honington |
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 1st Scouting Force 383rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16135437 / O-720790
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 1st Scouting Force 383rd Fighter Squadron 385th Fighter Squadron 602nd Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-1995743
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-pilot / Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron 385th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20911357 / O-750542
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-763105
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-763108
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Nicknames: Connie & Butch Inc.
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Nicknames: Connie & Butch Inc. Aboob
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 474th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron 428th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron
Revisions
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Sources
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)