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Major Jack C Price 20th FG
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Major Jack C Price of the 78th Fighter Group in the cockpit of his P-47 Thunderbolt (WZ-A, serial numbr 42-74641) nicknamed "Feather Merchant II".
Price has signed the image.
Handwritten caption on reverse: '1997, Good luck to Richard Murphy, Malone, NY. Major Jack Price, 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, Duxford Airfield, England, April 1943-1945'
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Major Jack C Price of the 78th Fighter Group with a BF 109 at the RAF Museum at Hendon, September 1995.
Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Major Jack Price, Colorado Springs, CO., Ace 5 Kills, 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Group. Hendon Museum, London September, 1995. Hometown: Grand Junction CO'
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Major Jack C Price, Captain James E Stokes and Captain Robert F Rohm veterans of the 78th Fighter Group with the Fighter Collection's P-47 Thunderbolt representing "No Guts No Glory" in September 1995.
Handwritten caption on reverse: 'September 1995, Duxford Airfield, England.
Major Jack Price-Ace 1943. Colorado Springs, CO. Hometown: Grand Junction, CO. CO of 84th Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, September 1943-February 1944.
Captain James Stokes. Mew Bern, NC. Hometown: NYC, NY. Started with 78th Group. April 1st 1943. Flew P-47's. DFC and 1 Cluster. Air Medal 2 Clusters. He shoveled 1st dirt on ground breaking day for the AAMB.
Captain Robert F Rohm. Hemet, CA. Hmetown Cleveland Ohio.'
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Page 85 of the Duxford Diary.
Many of the 8th Air Force Groups produced an unofficial unit history in the months after the war ended in Europe but before they were redeployed out of the ETO (‘European Theater of Operations’). The Duxford Diary was the book created by and for the service personnel who were based at Duxford at the end of the war in Europe, as a memento of their time at the airfield.
Resembling a college yearbook, unit histories were an unofficial – and often tongue-in-cheek – record of the unit’s time in the UK. They include photo montages showing different aspects of base life. Often the servicemen in the photos are unnamed. The American Air Museum hopes that by adding unit histories to the website as individual pages, the men in the photos will be identified and associated to their person entries.
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Page 107 of the Duxford Diary.
Many of the 8th Air Force Groups produced an unofficial unit history in the months after the war ended in Europe but before they were redeployed out of the ETO (‘European Theater of Operations’). The Duxford Diary was the book created by and for the service personnel who were based at Duxford at the end of the war in Europe, as a memento of their time at the airfield.
Resembling a college yearbook, unit histories were an unofficial – and often tongue-in-cheek – record of the unit’s time in the UK. They include photo montages showing different aspects of base life. Often the servicemen in the photos are unnamed. The American Air Museum hopes that by adding unit histories to the website as individual pages, the men in the photos will be identified and associated to their person entries.
Note re. possible error : Maj. Bruce C. Hunt should read Maj. Bruce E. Hunt
Flew 104 Combat Missions in P-47 and P-51 Aircraft. Served as SQ Commander 84th FS. 1944-1945 Dep Grp Commander 20th FG 1945. Retired from USAF on Feburary 1968.
DFC w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster/ AM w/ 6 Oak Leaf Cluster/ Joint Services Com Medal/ AF Com Medal w/ Oak Leaf Cluster/ Distinguished Unit Award
5 (In Air)
In Memoriam
Remembered by Richard J Murphy, Malone, NY
Service
Units served with
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Group
In August 1943, the 20th Fighter Group arrived in Clyde, Scotland, before travelling to Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire, which was to be their base for the rest of the war. The Group flew 312 missions before their last mission on 25 April 1945. The...
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Associated Place
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Military site : airfield
RAF Duxford, now a museum and still a working airfield, was operated by the USAAF from 1943 to 1945. The base was briefly the home of the 350th Fighter Group in late 1942, but it was not until April 1943 that it became a fully American station when the...
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Military site : airfield
Kings Cliffe began as a satellite air base for the Group based at nearby Wittering. The 56th Fighter Group, however, were all based at Kings Cliffe and it was here that the pilots trained in P-47 Thunderbolts and flew their first missions in the...
Events
Event |
Location |
Date |
Born |
Grand Junction, Colorado |
26 July 1918 |
Died |
Colorado Springs, CO, USA |
29 July 2001 |