313th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
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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.
- P-47D 'Tish VII' W3-F 44-197?7 assigned to the 313FS, 50FG.
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Unit stations
Station | Location | Date |
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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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Sources
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
Contributorjmchristel
Changes
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Sources
Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database