494th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
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FRE 5006
Emblem, 494th Fighter Squadron. Approved for use when the unit was designated the 57th Bomb Squadron, 22 August 1942.
Upon and over a blue disc a yellow drop bomb palewise, charged with a black cougar, eyed red, tail entwined around wing of bomb and barbed. Roger Freeman Collection
Upon and over a blue disc a yellow drop bomb palewise, charged with a black cougar, eyed red, tail entwined around wing of bomb and barbed. Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
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Based |
Ibsley |
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 48th Fighter Group 494th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-706338
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 356th Fighter Group 405th Fighter Group 48th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Squadron 494th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-830434
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 366th Fighter Group 48th Fighter Group 391st Fighter Squadron 494th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 48th Fighter Group 494th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32110862 / O-795983
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 48th Fighter Group 494th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-814772
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Revisions
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Sources
Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)