434th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 5280 - The insignia of the 434th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group.
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Unit stations
| Station | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
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Based |
Wattisham |
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-760456
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-760187
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19116002 at enlistment, then O-760458
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-830216
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot, Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12035014
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Painter (General)
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th 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 Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 30 Aug 1944.'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.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-456843.jpg.webp?itok=vyT98_c0)
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 479th Fighter Group 55th Fighter Group 343rd Fighter Squadron 434th Fighter Squadron 485th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 434th Fighter Squadron
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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)
