551st Fighter Training Squadron

Squadron
A crashed P-47 Thunderbolt (VM-J, serial number 41-6237) of the 551st Fighter Training Squadron, 495th Fighter Training Group. media-401036.jpg FRE 3239 A crashed P-47 Thunderbolt (VM-J, serial number 41-6237) of the 551st Fighter Training Squadron, 495th Fighter Training Group. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 3239 - A crashed P-47 Thunderbolt (VM-J, serial number 41-6237) of the 551st Fighter Training Squadron, 495th Fighter Training Group.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Atcham

People

Aircraft

A single propellor aircraft flying over water. Painted on the aircraft are the numbers 41-6385, and letters HV-Y . A figure is visible in the cockpit

41-6385

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: T-I-I-MBER-R | Charlotte
  • Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 551st Fighter Training Squadron 61st Fighter Squadron
A P-47 Thunderbolt (VM-A, serial number 41-6530) of the 495th Fighter Training Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '496 FTG [sic], Atcham.'

41-6530

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Windy
  • Unit: 2906th Observation Training Group 56th Fighter Group 2908th Observation Squadron 551st Fighter Training Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron

41-6578

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron 551st Fighter Training Squadron
A P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft (serial number 42-22537), which was piloted by Lieutenant Leroy B. Schreiber, 62nd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group. Handwritten on slide casing:"LM:T (L.Schreiber's a/c) on HS 15 Hightree Farm. looking south 43-44 AFM 51790b" Printed on slide casing:" JAN 91F01"

42-22537

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 551st Fighter Training Squadron 62nd Fighter Squadron

42-22767

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 551st Fighter Training Squadron 62nd Fighter Squadron

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Sources

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)

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