5th Emergency Rescue Squadron

Squadron
A P-47 Thunderbolt (5F-L, serial number 42-6410) of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron takes off. media-407991.jpg FRE 3093 A P-47 Thunderbolt (5F-L, serial number 42-6410) of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron takes off. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 3093 - A P-47 Thunderbolt (5F-L, serial number 42-6410) of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron takes off.

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Boxted 1 May 1944 - 16 January 1945

Based

Halesworth 16 January 1945

Previously was

People

Frank S Fong

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 359th Fighter Group 496th Fighter Training Group 369th Fighter Squadron 555th Fighter Training Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron Headquarters (496th Fighter Training Group)
  • Service Numbers: O-812792
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Frank A Forsyth

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 356th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-886960 / T-190911
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot, Pilot

Chester B Frye

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 56th Fighter Group 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-697021
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot

Jay P Green

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant

Carlos E Harper

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 361st Fighter Group 376th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-811901
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant

Aircraft

42-8485

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 359th Fighter Group 368th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
A P-47 Thunderbolt in the colours of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron in flight. Handwritten caption on reverse: '28490. Mystery. Has 5 ERS nose colours but not in unit history. Do not appear to have normal D-Day stripes.'

42-8490

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Bundle of Joy
  • Unit: 352nd Fighter Group 486th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron

42-8496

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Galloping Catastrophe
  • Unit: 65th Fighter Wing 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
A P-47 Thunderbolt (5F-S, serial number 42-8586, "War Weary") of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron.

42-8646

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Primrose Peggy
  • Unit: 356th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Squadron 369th Fighter Squadron 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron
The nose art of a P-47 Thunderbolt (5f-E, serial number 42-8693) nicknamed "Miss Margaret (Pee Wee)" of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'June 4, 45. Debden, Essex. A rare shot of 5th ERS, P-47s. Note dinghy racks under wing.'

42-8693

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Liquidator / Quaker - Sad Sack / Miss Margaret
  • Unit: 56th Fighter Group 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron 63rd Fighter Squadron

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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/5ersfg.php

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my art

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USAAF Photo.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

5th Emergency Rescue Squadron: Gallery (55 items)

A PBY Catalina (serial number 44-33915) nicknamed "Sophisticat" of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron at Halesworth. Written on slide casing: 'OA-10A, Sophisticat, Halesworth.'

Object number: FRE 7496 - A PBY Catalina (serial number 44-33915) nicknamed...

A P-47 Thunderbolt, (5F-G, serial number 42-75228, "War Weary") nicknamed "Harriet" of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron, takes off.

Object number: FRE 7497 - A P-47 Thunderbolt, (5F-G, serial number 42-75228...

Object number: UPL 13132 - Lt. William R Aggers, [Hubbard, OH]. 61st Fighter...

Object number: UPL 13133 - Lt. William R Aggers, [Hubbard, OH]. 61st Fighter...

Object number: UPL 13134 - Lt. William R Aggers, Hubbard, OH. 61st Fighter...

Object number: UPL 13135 - Lt. William R Aggers, [Hubbard, OH] 61st Fighter...

Object number: UPL 13356 - Memorials at Halesworth Airfield Museum. L- R: 5th...

Object number: UPL 13357 - 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron Memorial at...

Object number: UPL 13361 - Sign at Halesworth Airfield Memorial Museum.

Object number: UPL 15879 - Louis S Davis III 56th Fighter Group, 62nd...

Object number: UPL 22451 - In the foreground, the Republic P-47D-5-RE...

Object number: UPL 22614 - Pilots of 5th ERS photographed on 9 March 1945...