52nd Fighter Group
Group
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 8688 - A P-51 Mustang (serial number 44-63494) of the 52nd Fighter Group, 15th Air Force. Handwritten caption on reverse: '52nd FG, 5th FS (VF) Torretto AF...
Two of the Squadrons of the 52nd Fighter Group flew Spitfires with RAF Fighter Command in August and early September 1942 from Northern Ireland. After these preparatory missions, the Group joined the Twelfth and then Fifteenth Air Force in the Mediterranean theater, supporting successive army operations in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. The Group also escorted bombers flying strategic and interdictory missions over occupied central Europe.
Connections
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Unit stations
| Station | Location | Date |
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Based |
Eglinton | 13 July 1942 - 13 September 1942 |
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Based |
Goxhill | 26 August 1942 - 21 October 1942 |
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Based |
Tafaraoui | 9 November 1942 - 14 November 1942 |
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Based |
La Senia | 14 November 1942 - 20 January 1943 |
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Based |
Telerghma | 20 January 1943 - 9 March 1943 |
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Based |
Youks-les-Bains | 9 March 1943 - 18 April 1943 |
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Based |
La Sebala | 21 May 1943 - 30 July 1943 |
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Based |
Madna | 14 May 1944 - 21 April 1945 |
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Other Assigned 8th Air Force |
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Other Assigned 12th Air Force |
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Other Assigned 15th Air Force |
Encompassing
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Twelfth Air Force Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 339th Fighter Group 52nd Fighter Group 503rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14059935 / O-438002
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 4th Fighter Group 52nd Fighter Group 109th Observation Squadron 336th Fighter Squadron No 133 'Eagle' Squadron 2nd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-885165
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
- Service Numbers: O-885202
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Miss Ruth, Pendaja
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group No 121 'Eagle' Squadron
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 52nd Fighter Group 5th Service Squadron No 71 'Eagle' Squadron
Mission
- Date: 6 October 1942
- Date: 2 October 1942
- Date: 10 September 1942
- Date: 2 September 1942
- Date: 1 September 1942
Revisions
Air Force Combat Units of WWII
Airforce added.
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).
