41-7631

media-456762.jpg FRE 10029 P-38 Lightnings, including (serial number 41-7631) of the 1st Fighter Group at Goxhill. Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 20 Jul 1942.' [stamp] and '213031.' [censor no]. Printed caption on the reverse is damaged and is illegible. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 10029 - P-38 Lightnings, including (serial number 41-7631) of the 1st Fighter Group at Goxhill. Image stamped on reverse: 'Not to be published 20 Jul 1942.'...

Assigned to 94FS, 1FG, 8AF USAAF. The aircraft was eventually scrapped in Tunisia. The tail section was used by the 33rd Fighter Group's 59th Fighter Squadron as a bar in the spring of 1943.

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Units served with

1st Fighter Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

Lieutenant Kenneth J. Sorace of the 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group, beside his P-38H Lightning (CY-S, serial number 42-67058), named "Pitter Pat", 1943-1944.

94th Fighter Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron

Places

Goxhill

Site type: Airfield

Kirton-in-Lindsey

Site type: Airfield

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Assigned	Tafraoui, Algeria	13 November 1942	Redeployed to Algeria with the 12th AF.
Manufactured	Burbank, CA, USA		Built at Lockheed.
Delivered	California, USA		Delivered to USAAF.
Other Deployed to ETO	Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, Canada		Delivered to UK as part of Operation Bolero via Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Greenland.
Other Deployed to ETO	Greenland		Delivered to UK as part of Operation Bolero via Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Greenland.
Assigned	Kirton in Lindsey, Gainsborough DN21, UK		Assigned to 94FS, 1FG, 8AF USAAF.
Other Scrapped	Tunisia		Scrapped in Tunisia.