Andover

Airfield
Aerial photograph of Andover airfield looking south, 25 September 1945. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/839. English Heritage (RAF Photography). eh-151.jpg RAF_106G_UK_839_RP_3082 Aerial photograph of Andover airfield looking south, 25 September 1945. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/839. English Heritage (RAF Photography). Historic England

IWM, English Heritage Collection

Object Number - RAF_106G_UK_839_RP_3082 - Aerial photograph of Andover airfield looking south, 25 September 1945. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/839. English...

Andover was built in the First World War and used by the Royal Flying Corps, then the RAF. Home to the 370th Fighter Group in 1944, it was then handed back to the RAF. The airfield closed in 1976, and the site has since been used by the British Army.

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18051794
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Man in WWII era formal Air Force uniform standing in military parade having medal pinned on jacket lapel by other man also in uniform.  Other uniformed men are standing to the side and rear.
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: AO703161
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 355th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 354th Fighter Squadron 360th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-2057528
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 405th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron 511th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19074204 / O-674032
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot, Flight Commander, Assistant Operations Officer

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Strictly Stella's Baby Lucky Lady
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 402nd Fighter Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 495th Fighter Training Group
Colonel Harold J. Rau and his ground crew of the 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group with a P-38 Lightning nicknamed "Gentle Annie." Handwritten caption on reverse: 'P-38 Gentle Annie, 20th FG, 79th FS, Col. Harold J. Rau + crew.'
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Gentle Annie
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: SWAMP ANGEL
  • Unit: 370th Fighter Group
French countryside, photographed through the nose of a P-38 Lightning of the 367th Fighter Group on landing. Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 30 Aug 1944.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 31 May 1945.' [stamp] and '354528 .' [censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'P-38s over the Seine. No.1 of a series of pix taken through the nose of the P-38 as it comes in to land. Scherschel LIFE.'
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Colorado Belle
  • Unit: Base Air Depot 3 370th Fighter Group 401st Fighter Squadron

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Sources

Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then and Now (London, 1994)

Chris Ashworth, Action Stations 9: Military Airfields of the Central South and South-east (Cambridge, 1985)

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