Glenn L Fielding

Military
media-18217.jpeg UPL 18217 Lt. Glenn L. Fielding, 374th Fighter Squadron, sitting in his P-47 Thunderbolt. April 1944, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire.
Museum object reference no. BAM_0286 Bottisham Airfield Museum

Bottisham Airfield Museum

Object Number - UPL 18217 - Lt. Glenn L. Fielding, 374th Fighter Squadron, sitting in his P-47 Thunderbolt. April 1944, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire. Museum object reference no....

Missions flown-81; Operational hours 298:45. Once came back to base with a foot long solid chunk of cast iron weighing 12 pounds( from a German freight car) embedded in the right wing of his P-51.



ETO w/ 3 stars/ AM/ DFC w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Ferocious Frankie
  • Unit: 361st Fighter Group 374th Fighter Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Piper City, Illinois 1 August 1920

Died

10 February 1988

Buried

Other

End Tour of Duty (ETD)

Other

Promoted

Other

Transferred

Revisions

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ContributorK Flynn
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list / documents

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