27th Fighter Escort Wing
Wing
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Control Tower at Fritzlar Airfield - Y-86
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...
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...
Group
A unit history of the 404th Fighter Group is available online as a pdf:
http://www.winkton.net/Leap%20Off/LeapOffPdf3.pdf
Military site : airfield
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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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