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Re: US fighters with No. 100 Group RAF
Little Snoring ORB (AIR 28/490):Major T.L. Gates of the Special American Flight with 4 other American Officers and four American N.C.O's attached on temporary duty with two Mustang and two Lightning aircraft arrived on 21st February 1944. They left with two Mustangs and one Lightning on 27th April.
No. 100 Group ORB (AIR 25/777) has the following: Operation "Flower". The U.S.A.A.F. detachment at Little Snoring under command of Major Gates, has successfully carried out 9 intruder sorties against enemy airfields in the vicinity of the various bomber Command targets. Major Gates himself carried out the first sortie in a single-engined fighter over Berlin at night on the night of 24/25th March.
Both AIR 28/490 and AIR 25/777 from the National Archives, Kew, London.
Bengt
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