[Alain57]

Hello ,

Here some info on the 356 Fg over Belgium :

10/01/1944
Maaseik
P-47D-5-RE
Flak / Escorte
42-8639 / 356FG/359FS
1st Lt Brown William.F. ( KIA ) 0-796657 Pensylvania
MACR 1736
First buried St-Trond airfield , later Ardennes cemetery D/5/37


20/03/1944
Beauvechain
P-47D-6-RE
Flak and bailed out / Escorte Lissendorf
42-74662 / 356FG/360FS
Martelsham Heath
1st Lt Mc Cullough Philip E ( WIA- POW ) 0-796002 Massachusetts Luft 3
Wounded on his foot and brought to the St-Gilles hospital in Brussels
MACR 3397


20/03/1944
Wemmel
P-47D-6-RE
Hit by Flak from St-Trond airfield / Escorte
42-74646
356FG/361FS
QI-I
Cpt Porter Jr Frederick S (POW) 0-025502 Connecticut Luft 1 MACR 3396










20/03/1944
Loksbergen
P-47D-6-RE
Hit by flak from St-Trond airfield / Escorte
42-74638 / 356FG/360FS
Bessie /Nashville Belle
1st Lt Garvey Charley J. Jr. (POW) 0-797664 04/11/1920 North Carolina Luft 3
MACR 3395 / Died in march 1980 at Seymour Tenessee

22/03/1944
Neerwinden
P-47D-2-RA
Hit by flakk from St-Trond airfield
42-22535 / 356FG/360FS
F/O Maupin Howard P. (EVD) 0-122889
MACR 3394
05/05/1918 Bradford Illinois - 27/02/1980 Galva Illinois

22/03/1944
Machelen
P-47D-11-RE
42-75553 / 356FG/361FS
1st Lt Bell DeWitt T Jr (KIA) 0-810461 Georgia 10/
First buried at Evere on 24 march 44 later Ardennes cemetery, then to the US / MACR 3398

14/06/1944
Tessenderlo -Engsbergen
P-47D-11-RE
Mechanical problems - Bailed out
42-75273 / 356FG/ 360FS
PI-P
1st Lt Phillips Fred C.Jr ( POW ) 0-818419 North Carolina Stalag 2B MACR 5752 - Call sign Vortex Green 4





30/06/1944
Zemst
P-47D-21-RE
Flak / Escort area patrol
42-25508 / 356FG/359FS
OC-O
1st Lt Earnhart Charles B. (EVD) 0-2045074
MACR 6551
15/05/1918 Rock Hill North Carolina / 01/09/2004 Hohenwald Tennessee , buried

01/09/1944
Hove-Marcq
P-47D-22-RE
Emergencylanding after strafing enemy convoy
42-26141 / 356FG/359FS
OC-I
Fearless Fosdick
1st Lt Forsyth Frank A. (EVD)
MACR 8549

21/09/1944
Mons
P-47
Flak / Escorte Bielefeld
44-15354
356FG/361FS
QI-Y
1st Lt Higginbotham Merrion "Sim"(OK) Regards