I have the Order of Battle, Station Locations, names of Commanders, Campaigns & Decorations awarded to the 370th Fighter Grp. during WW 2. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com The Group History on the 370th Fighter Group was published in the Spring of 2003 by Schiffer Military Publishers. It was authored by the grandson (Jay Jones) of one of the pilots in the 402nd Fighter Squadron which was one of three squadrons in the 370th (401st, 402nd and 485th). It is a big boo with lots of pictures , stories by veterans and drawings that relate to the Group and is one of the best group histories out there.
The Tuskegee Airmen. The nickname was not exclusive to their fighter group - the 477th Bombardment Group shared the nickname, as well.
Answer The Tuskegee airmen were trained at Tuskegee and formed into the 99th Pursuit Squadron. Later their group included 33rd , 324th, and 79th Fighter Groups and eventually the 332 Fighter Group that was stationed in Italy. They escorted bombers from the 15th Air Force on missions to Germany, Austria and Hungary. There were no US airmen stationed in Hungary.
Fighter aircraft are in a flight, wing, or squadron.
No, to both. Current squadrons jump from 230 sqn to 617 (Dambusters) with nothing inbetween. Previously there was a 361 sqn (ECM Canberras - disbanded 14 July 1967) and the next after that was 500sqn (Auxiliary Air Force, flying Meteors - disbanded 10 March 1957). There was a USAAF 364th fighter group that served in WWII from the UK (based at RAF Honington) and the USAAF 364th fighter squadron (part of 357th fighter group at Yoxford in WWII).
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There were actually 4 all black fighter Squadrons, 99th, 100th, 301st and 302 nd. Together they made up the 332nd Fighter Group, Fifteenth US Army Air Force. The first commander of the 99th, (the first Tuskegee Squadron) was Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. He eventually became Group Commander. His father, Benjamin O.Davis Sr was one of the US Army's first black Generals in WW2.
The highest scoring US plane was the P38 Lightning, with 40 kills.
A group of fighter plans (and bomber planes) is called a squadron. The size can be four or six planes to a squadron and there is a squadron leader.
Depending on the airforce, a 'flight' or a 'section'.
They were known as "the Tuskeegee Airmen" or - alternatively "Red Tails." Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Moton Field, the Tuskegee Army Air Field, and were educated at Tuskegee University, located near Tuskegee, Alabama. When the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group painted the tails of their P-47s and later, P-51s, red, the nickname "Red Tails" was coined.Of the 179 bomber escort missions the 332nd Fighter Group flew for the Fifteenth Air Force, the group encountered enemy aircraft on 35 of those missions and lost bombers to enemy aircraft on only seven, and the total number of bombers lost was 27. By comparison, the average number of bombers lost by the other P-51 fighter groups of the Fifteenth Air Force during the same period was 46.
I believe that would be the Tuskegee Airmen of Fifteenth USAAF.
Don Woerpel has written: 'The 79th Fighter Group'