Billy Chat Ferguson

Military
media-44462.jpeg UPL 44462 Halcott B. Thomas Crew
95th BG - 335th BS

Standing Left to Right: Gene C. Grime (R/O), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Millard E. McGowan, Jr. (TG), Fred W. Miller (WG)

Kneeling Left to Right: Halcott B. Thomas (P), Benjamin F. Hathaway (B), Bily P. Decherniss (BTG), Donald B. Flygstad (N), Max Bunin (CP)

This was largely the crew that Halcott Thomas finished his tour with, though his original crew had a sunstantially different composition. The crew in the photo had been the Jammie Philpott crew
95th Bomb Group collection

Object Number - UPL 44462 - Halcott B. Thomas Crew 95th BG - 335th BS Standing Left to Right: Gene C. Grime (R/O), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Millard E. McGowan, Jr. (TG),...

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: 13th Jinx
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hell's Belle
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Sweetheart of Seattle
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group

Missions

  • Date: 17 March 1945
  • Date: 26 February 1945
  • Date: 15 February 1945
Ground crew attend to a crashed P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Baby Jo" of the 357th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Noel Breen ran out of fuel 9 Feb '45.'
  • Date: 9 February 1945

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Bokchito, OK 23 October 1920

Enlisted

Los Angeles, CA 9 January 1943

Other

95th BG Combat Tour

Horham Airfield, UK 12 October 1944 - 11 April 1944 24 missions

Died

Hawthorne, CA 12 January 1998

Buried

Durant, OK 17 January 1998 Highland Cemetery Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma, USA
Los Angeles, Ca

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