313th Fighter Squadron

Squadron
media-33481.jpeg UPL 33481 "T/Sgt. Robert N. Nash, Rapid City, SD., installs rocket tubes onto a P-47 fighter bomber at this advanced first TAC AF fighter field in France. The tenacious, hard-hitting P-47s strafing and bombing the enemy on this front, press home the air war with triple-threat intensity vis machine gun, bomb and rockets."

- P-47D 'Tish VII' W3-F 44-197?7 assigned to the 313FS, 50FG.

Object Number - UPL 33481 - "T/Sgt. Robert N. Nash, Rapid City, SD., installs rocket tubes onto a P-47 fighter bomber at this advanced first TAC AF fighter field in France. The...

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Unit stations

Station Location Date

Based

Lymington

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-66681
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 356th Fighter Group 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron 359th Fighter Squadron 360th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18049503 / O-431857
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-797789
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-411180
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-36833
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 50th Fighter Group 313th Fighter Squadron 336th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: Spitfire
  • Nicknames: Manchester Corporation Transporter
  • Unit: 313th Fighter Squadron No 71 'Eagle' Squadron 66th Fighter Squadron

Revisions

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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- 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)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/313th_Tactical_Fighter_Squadron ( jmchristel )
-http://www.armyaircorpsmuseum.org/50th_fighter_group.cfm;
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/313th_Tactical_Fighter_Squadron

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ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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