554th Fighter Training Squadron

Squadron
The wreck of a P-38 Lightning (B9-H) of the 554th Fighter Training Squadron, 496th Fighter Training Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B9 is back.' media-401039.jpg FRE 3242 The wreck of a P-38 Lightning (B9-H) of the 554th Fighter Training Squadron, 496th Fighter Training Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B9 is back.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 3242 - The wreck of a P-38 Lightning (B9-H) of the 554th Fighter Training Squadron, 496th Fighter Training Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B9 is...

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Goxhill

People

Allen D Singleton

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 496th Fighter Training Group 554th Fighter Training Squadron 55th Fighter Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-754211
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Kent H Stevens

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 364th Fighter Group 496th Fighter Training Group 385th Fighter Squadron 554th Fighter Training Squadron 55th Fighter Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-750715
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Montgomery Hunt Throop

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 31st Fighter Group 357th Fighter Group 496th Fighter Training Group 307th Fighter Squadron 335th Fighter Squadron 363rd Fighter Squadron 554th Fighter Training Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-433426
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot/squadron commander
Pilots and crew of the 55th Fighter Group, stand with J. Frank Dobie, a well-known Texan writer, in front of P-38J Lightning named "Texas Ranger" at Nuthampstead air base. Left to right they are: Captain Gerald F. Leinweber, J. Frank Dobie, Lieutenant-Colonel Jack S. Jenkins, Major Dallas W. Webb and Technical Sergeant Carl R. Causey.

Dallas W Webb

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 496th Fighter Training Group 55th Fighter Group 343rd Fighter Squadron 554th Fighter Training Squadron Headquarters (55th Fighter Group) 94th Fighter Squadron 1st Fighter Group
  • Service Numbers: O-404103
  • Highest Rank: Captain

Ernest R Wilson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 496th Fighter Training Group 554th Fighter Training Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

Revisions

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / 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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