71st Fighter Wing | American Air Museum in Britain

Structure

Part of

IX Air Force Service Command

Command
The IX Air Force Service Command performed two functions: supplying the Ninth Air Force, and maintenance and major repair of airplanes and other equipment. ...
IX Air Support Command

Command
IX Fighter Command

Command
IX Tactical Air Command

Command

Encompassing

84th Service Group

Group
86th Air Depot Group

Group
9th Service Group

Group
366th Fighter Group

Group
The Group moved in England over the New Year of 1944, setting up home first at Membury and then at Thruxton. The pilots' first mission was a fighter sweep of the French coast in March 1944 and from then until D-Day that June the ground supported Allied...
368th Fighter Group

Group
The 368th Fighter Group flew P-47s in combat from England from March 1944. In the days after D-Day the Group supported Allied ground troops fighting in the Cherbourg penisula and then around St. Lo. The Group received a DUC for flying seven missions in...
370th Fighter Group

Group
26th Service Group

Group
40th Mobile Communications Squadron

Squadron
310th Station Complement Squadron

Squadron
66th Airdrome Squadron

Squadron

Previously was

Not yet known

Became

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Francis Callahan

Military | Private First Class | Firefighter
Transferred to 2018th EAFFP, pursuant to authority contained in par. 1, SO#91, Headquarters, 71st Fighter Wind, dated 29 May 1944.
Emil Piljac

Military | Private First Class | Firefighter
Transferred to 2018th EAFFP, pursuant to authority contained in par. 1, SO#91, Headquarters, 71st Fighter Wing, dated 29, May 1944.

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Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:42:44	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
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)