555th Fighter Training Squadron

Squadron
A crashed P-51 Mustang (C7-Y, serial number 43-6503) of the 555th Fighter Training Squadron, 496th Fighter Training Group. media-401037.jpg FRE 3240 A crashed P-51 Mustang (C7-Y, serial number 43-6503) of the 555th Fighter Training Squadron, 496th Fighter Training Group. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 3240 - A crashed P-51 Mustang (C7-Y, serial number 43-6503) of the 555th Fighter Training Squadron, 496th Fighter Training Group.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Goxhill

People

Harry L Lordi

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 496th Fighter Training Group 555th Fighter Training Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-816759
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Captain Harvey Mace of the 357th Fighter Group with his P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Sweet Helen" at Leiston. Written on slide casing: 'Lt Harvey Mace, Sweet Helen Leiston.'

Harvey F Mace

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 357th Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 362nd Fighter Squadron 363rd Fighter Squadron 555th Fighter Training Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-805087
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Leonard S Malmud

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 339th Fighter Group 3rd Scouting Force 496th Fighter Training Group 503rd Fighter Squadron 555th Fighter Training Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 82nd Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-830497
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant

Lewis H Maynard

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 496th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 555th Fighter Training Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 62nd Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-716187
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot

Francis J McCarthy

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 352nd Fighter Group 496th Fighter Training Group 328th Fighter Squadron 555th Fighter Training Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-770346
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Aircraft

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Sources

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)

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