505th Fighter Squadron

Squadron

media-5607.jpeg UPL 5607 Lieutenant Jack S Daniell from Birmingham, Al. 339th Fighter Group, 505th Fighter Squadron.

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Object Number - UPL 5607 - Lieutenant Jack S Daniell from Birmingham, Al. 339th Fighter Group, 505th Fighter Squadron.

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Unit stations

Station	Location	Date
Based	Fowlmere	5 April 1944 - 10 October 1945
Other	Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire

People

Edwin Cameron Ball

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron
Service Numbers: 39450227 / O-815325
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Brooks J Bline

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron
Service Numbers: 38022416 / O-661698
Highest Rank: Captain
Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Billy B Booth

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron
Service Numbers: 16119641
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Carl H Bundgaard

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron
Service Numbers: 12137688 / O-763483
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Harold W Burch

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron
Service Numbers: 17131274 / O-2056896
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Aircraft

42-103314

Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron

42-103559

Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron

A P-51 Mustang of the 339th Fighter Group prepares to take-off at Fowlmere, whilst the Runway Control Officer watches. The distinctive striped jacket (and baseball cap) he is wearing was a peculiarity of the 339th – it was instituted to assist pilots of aircraft in spotting the Officer, upon whose signal that it was safe to take–off they depended. Handwritten on slide:"T/o bombing mission 8/44 Fowlmere James G. Robinson"

42-103742

Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
Nicknames: Man O War
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron Headquarters (339th Fighter Group)

42-103756

Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron

42-106626

Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
Nicknames: Butch
Unit: 339th Fighter Group 505th Fighter Squadron

Revisions

Date26 Feb 2015 16:30:27

Contributorrossingtonj

ChangesChanges to type, aircraft types and stations

Sources

339 bomb group page

Date27 Sep 2014 18:42:49

ContributorAAM

ChangesAAM ingest

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)