27th Ferrying Squadron
Squadron
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UPL 16138
1st Lt Don E Knight - Navigator Stationed at New Castle Army Air Base, Wilmington, Delaware
27th Ferry Sqdn, 2d Ferrying Group
Served in North Africa, European Theatre, China-Burma & the Pacific Theatre.
27th Ferry Sqdn, 2d Ferrying Group
Served in North Africa, European Theatre, China-Burma & the Pacific Theatre.
Ferried lots of different aircraft to combat theatres. Was a hand selected crew member at the end of the war to fly only the "owners & editors" along with writers & photographers of all the major American Newspapers & media to Germany. All on orders from the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe upon the first Nazi Concentration Camp's liberation.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Ferrying Group 27th Ferrying Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-809317
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 27th Ferrying Squadron 312th Ferry Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32300926
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Ferrying Group 27th Ferrying Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37241922
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Passenger
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Ferrying Group 27th Ferrying Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Ferrying Group 27th Ferrying Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-495346
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 2nd Ferrying Group 27th Ferrying Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Nicknames: Ole Puss
- Unit: 56th Fighter Group 27th Ferrying Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron 87th Air Transport Squadron
- Aircraft Type: L-4 Grasshopper
- Unit: 27th Ferrying Squadron
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia