429th Fighter Squadron

Squadron
The insignia of the 429th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group. media-396184.jpg FRE 5030 The insignia of the 429th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 5030 - The insignia of the 429th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Warmwell

People

Dennis Raymond Chamberlain

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 474th Fighter Group 429th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-763451
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Clarence Jerome Moore

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 474th Fighter Group 429th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-755995
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Harold K Sargent

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 474th Fighter Group 429th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-773823
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Aircraft

42-104205

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Donna Jean
  • Unit: 474th Fighter Group 429th 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 Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 30 Aug 1944.'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.'

42-67716

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 20th Fighter Group 474th Fighter Group 429th Fighter Squadron 77th Fighter Squadron

42-67765

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 474th Fighter Group 429th Fighter Squadron

42-67799

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 474th Fighter Group 429th Fighter Squadron

43-28378

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 474th Fighter Group 429th Fighter Squadron

Revisions

Date13 Mar 2015 15:55:14
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Date27 Sep 2014 18:42:49
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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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