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American airmen of the 1066th Signal Company, 355th Fighter Group enjoy a drink in an English pub, 1944.
Image by Alexander "Cal" Sloan, 355th Fighter Group.
This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.
American airmen enjoy a drink in an English pub.
Group
Where the 353rd Fighter Group had pioneered ground strafing techniques, it was the 355th Fighter Group who destroyed more enemy aircraft by ground strafing than any other Eighth Air Force Group. Based at Steeple Morden from July 1943 to July 1945, the...
Company
Military
Alexander Sloan, known as 'Cal' worked as a professional photographer, using a Zeiss Contax 35mm camera, prior to enlistment.
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 May 2015 13:02:19 | Emily | Changes to caption, unit associations and person associations |
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Associated 1066th Signal Co & Sloan as the airman on the left is wearing a Radio Operator Speciality Patch , and Sloan is credited as photographer here |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 May 2015 11:36:04 | rossingtonj | Changes to caption and unit associations |
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Additional information taken from: http://www.ww2color.com/search/webapps/slides/slides.php?action=update&p... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 February 2015 10:00:21 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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IWM, Roger Freeman Collection |
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