495th Fighter Training Group
Group
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 566 - Brigadier-General Francis Griswold stands on the wing of a P-51 Mustang (VM-?) of the 495th Fighter Training Group. Handwritten caption on reverse:...
The 495th Fighter Training Group, which operated in England from December 1943, trained P-47 Thunderbolt pilots. These pilots, who had received the basic training in the USA would be assigned to a training group to practise ETO operational procedures and gunnery from the UK before being assigned to the Eighth or Ninth Air Forces.
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Unit stations
| Station | Location | Date |
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 350th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-811885
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 78th Fighter Group 350th Fighter Squadron 82nd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14097101 / O-792983
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 360th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2045090 / T-190885
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 20th Fighter Group 356th Fighter Group 361st Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 376th Fighter Squadron 555th Fighter Training Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-712001
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 61st Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-122270
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron 552nd Fighter Training Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: WELA KAHAO!, Flak Bait
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron 351st Fighter Squadron 552nd Fighter Training Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron 551st Fighter Training Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 351st Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Powers Girl
- Unit: 6th Fighter Wing 495th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 552nd Fighter Training Squadron 61st Fighter Squadron 1st Gunnery & Tow Target Flight
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The Mighty Eighth. A History of the Units, Men and Machines of the US 8th Air Force.' by Roger A. Freeman (1989). 'Air Force Combat Units of World War II' compiled by the Department of the US Air Force, edited by Maurice Maurer (1983). / 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)