27th Fighter Escort Wing
Wing
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Control Tower at Fritzlar Airfield - Y-86
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365th Fighter Group
Group
The Group moved to England in December 1943 as part of the Ninth Air Force. Flying P-47s, the Group took part in missions over northern France designed to weaken Germany's ability to repulse the planned Allied invasion of summer 1944. After the... -
366th Fighter Group
Group
The Group moved in England over the New Year of 1944, setting up home first at Membury and then at Thruxton. The pilots' first mission was a fighter sweep of the French coast in March 1944 and from then until D-Day that June the ground supported Allied... -
404th Fighter Group
Group
A unit history of the 404th Fighter Group is available online as a pdf: http://www.winkton.net/Leap%20Off/LeapOffPdf3.pdf
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Fritzlar
Military site : airfield
Revisions
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| 22 August 2015 05:35:04 | 466thHistorian | Created entry with caption, unit associations and place associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 22 August 2015 05:35:04 | 466thHistorian | Changes to place associations |
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