401st Fighter Squadron

Squadron

Object Number - UPL 14760 - 401st Fighter Squadron (leather patch)

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Andover

People

Oren John Henry Adams

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18051794
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: fighter pilot

Ernest T Cragg

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot, Flight Commander, Assistant Operations Officer
Lieutenant Herb Forman of the 370th Fighter Group at Andover. Handwritten caption on reverse: '1st Lt Herb Forman- KIA, looking West at Andover Field.'

Herbert Forman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-807304
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

James K Kunkle

  • 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

Ralph A Loffredo

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 356th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 360th Fighter Squadron 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-796709
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Aircraft

42-67942

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
Colonel Harold J. Rau and his ground crew of the 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group with a P-38 Lightning nicknamed "Gentle Annie." Handwritten caption on reverse: 'P-38 Gentle Annie, 20th FG, 79th FS, Col. Harold J. Rau + crew.'

43-28408

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Gentle Annie
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron

43-28749

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st 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 Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 30 Aug 1944.'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.'

44-23151

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Colorado Belle
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron

44-72261

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron 401st Fighter Squadron

Revisions

Date9 Apr 2015 21:14:55
ContributorEMBLEMHUNTER
ChangesChanges to media associations
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my photo

Date13 Mar 2015 15:47:21
Contributorrossingtonj
ChangesChanges to type
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Type added.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:42:49
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

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)

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Object number: UPL 14760 - 401st Fighter Squadron (leather patch)

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