52nd Fighter Group

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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 Cerisnola Italy Base of 461 & 484 BG, 49th Wing 15 AF, Taken spring 1945.' media-418163.jpg 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 Cerisnola Italy Base of 461 & 484 BG, 49th Wing 15 AF, Taken spring 1945.' Roger Freeman Collection

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.

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Unit stations

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Eglinton 13 July 1942 - 13 September 1942

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Goxhill 26 August 1942 - 21 October 1942

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Tafaraoui 9 November 1942 - 14 November 1942

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La Senia 14 November 1942 - 20 January 1943

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Telerghma 20 January 1943 - 9 March 1943

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Youks-les-Bains 9 March 1943 - 18 April 1943

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La Sebala 21 May 1943 - 30 July 1943

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Madna 14 May 1944 - 21 April 1945

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Assigned 8th Air Force

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Assigned 12th Air Force

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Assigned 15th Air Force

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group 2nd Fighter Squadron 57th Fighter Group 66th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-420832
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot / Squadron Commander
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron No 121 'Eagle' Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
  • Service Numbers: O-790649
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
  • Service Numbers: O-792120
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group 4th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-427736
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group No 71 'Eagle' Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Unit: 66th Fighter Wing 52nd Fighter Group No 71 'Eagle' Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 52nd Fighter Group Headquarters (4th Fighter Group)
  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group
  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Unit: 52nd Fighter Group

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Air Force Combat Units of WWII

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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).

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