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Page 109 of the Duxford Diary.
Many of the 8th Air Force Groups produced an unofficial unit history in the months after the war ended in Europe but before they were redeployed out of the ETO (‘European Theater of Operations’). The Duxford Diary was the book created by and for the service personnel who were based at Duxford at the end of the war in Europe, as a memento of their time at the airfield.
Resembling a college yearbook, unit histories were an unofficial – and often tongue-in-cheek – record of the unit’s time in the UK. They include photo montages showing different aspects of base life. Often the servicemen in the photos are unnamed. The American Air Museum hopes that by adding unit histories to the website as individual pages, the men in the photos will be identified and associated to their person entries.
Probable typographical error : Capt. James G. Graham should be Capt. James J. Graham
Group
The 78th Fighter Group was initially based at Goxhill but moved to Duxford in April 1943 and stayed there until October 1945. The 78th FG flew each of the three US built principal fighters of the AAF in the ETO. In their Thundetbolts, the 78th FG ...
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The 84th Service SQ was activated as the 332 Materiel SQ 3 Feb 1942 at Barksdale Fld, LA, then moved to Esler Fld, LA, and was redesignated the 332 Service Group. It embarked for overseas 24 Sept. 1942, Maj. Dozier took command at Goxhill &...
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Military site : airfield
RAF Duxford, now a museum and still a working airfield, was operated by the USAAF from 1943 to 1945. The base was briefly the home of the 350th Fighter Group in late 1942, but it was not until April 1943 that it became a fully American station when the...
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| 05 August 2015 09:47:57 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to caption and person associations |
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Associated page with the appropriate entries of people/places/aircraft etc. |
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| 21 July 2015 18:24:00 | Lucy May | Changes to person associations |
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Associated page with the entries of the people in the photos. |
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| 21 July 2015 17:53:04 | Lucy May | Created entry with collection, caption, unit associations and place associations |
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These scans were made from a copy of the Duxford Diary in IWM’s Collections. This is one of the copies printed in September 1945 by the Duxford Diary Staff and Committee for the American units stationed at the airfield. |
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