404th Fighter Group
Group
A unit history of the 404th Fighter Group is available online as a pdf:
http://www.winkton.net/Leap%20Off/LeapOffPdf3.pdf
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506th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
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Thomas Crawford Leake III Fighter Pilot 404th FG - 506th FS - 9th AF KIA - 25 August 1944 Photo taken from his college yearbook when he was about 21 years old.
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Lieutenant John Leo Barth, was a member of the 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force during WWII. He flew thirty-eight missions in the P-47 and was awarded the Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters. Based first at Winkton in Hampshire, he participated in the D-Day invasion. His service was cut short when he was wounded by a German landmine while walking to his aircraft in France, losing a leg and thumb. This is a recording of a radio dramatization of his time in the service along with an interview. This recording was taken from a 78 RPM transcription that played from the inside of the record out. The photos are of Lieutenant Barth from his personal collection. The squadron mascot, Pam, is featured in some of the photos.
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Captain Harry E. Anderson
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John Leo Barth and Pam
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John Leo Barth
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Squadron mascot Pam
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John Leo Barth and Pam
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Flight of 404th FG, 506th FS P-47s
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Pages from Leap Off, the history of the 404th Fighter Group. http://www.winkton.net/Leap%20Off/LeapOffPdf3.pdf
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Lieutenant John Leo Barth was a member of the 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force during WWII. He flew thirty-eight missions in the P-47 and was awarded the Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters. Based first at Winkton in Hampshire, he participated in the D-Day invasion. His service was cut short when he was wounded by a landmine while walking to his aircraft in France, losing a leg and thumb.
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508th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
"During one of the many breaks in operations caused by weather, Lieut. Col. Cowart of the 555th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion introduced to pilots of the [404th FB] Group a radar set known as the SCR-584 (Signal Corps Radio). It had the ability to...
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Harry Anderson
Military | Captain | Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
100 missions DFC, Air Medal and 15 Clusters -
John Barth
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Lieutenant John Leo Barth was a member of the 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force during WWII. He flew thirty-eight missions in the P-47 and was awarded the Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters. Based first at Winkton in Hampshire,... -
Barton Christopher
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
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Max Conn
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Credited with two enemy aircraft destroyed. -
Pam dog
Military | Mascot | 404th Fighter Group
506th Fighter Squadron Mascot. -
Chester Dunsmore
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
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Raymond Elledge
Military | Major | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
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Robert Fenstermacher
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Army Air Force 1st Lt. Robert G. Fenstermacher, of Scranton, was a P-47D pilot who crashed in Belgium in December 1944 during an armed-reconnaissance mission against targets in Germany. He was 23. ... -
William Frost
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Assigned to 506FS, 404FG, 8AF USAAF. "During an early familiarisation flight with a fully loaded P47C [41-6529], 1st Lt William Frost had to carry out an emergency return to the airfield, having notified the field controller that he had a fuel leak and... -
George Gehling
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 404th Fighter Group
Flew 43 combat missions -
42-22770
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-25720
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-25893 Joan - The Happy Hopper
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-26465 Rae
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-28933 Jug
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-75098
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-75173
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-8379
P-47 Thunderbolt
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42-27221 'I'll Get By'
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47 Thunderbolt "I'll Get By" 42-27221 of the 404th Fighter Group, flown by Lt. Col. Leo C. Moon. -
42-7884 'Reggie's Reply' / 'Lucky' 'Donnie Boy'
P-47 Thunderbolt
P-47D Thunderbolt 42-7884, was 2nd Lt John Godfrey's first 'REGGIE'S REPLY', which he inherited from his future flight leader 1st Lt. Don Gentile. ...
Stations
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| Based | Winkton |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 13 March 2015 15:58:57 | rossingtonj | Changes to type |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:42:49 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / 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) |
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