83rd Fighter Squadron
Squadron
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FRE 293
Left to right: Captain Foy E. Higginbottom, Lieutenant Hubert "Bill" Davis and Lieutenant John A. Kirk, all pilots of the 83rd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, drink Coca-Cola outside a Nissen hut at Duxford air base. 1943-1945.
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
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Based |
Duxford |
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19075736 / O-728959
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18103266 / O-666853
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-695151
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 14th Fighter Group 49th Fighter Squadron 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17040128 / O-728974
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 55th Fighter Group 338th Fighter Squadron 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16078318 / O-681609
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Muscle Bound
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Skonk Hunter
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 83rd Fighter Squadron
Revisions
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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)