[ian hunt]

Hi Alfred

I don't know for sure if this is the correct answer to your question, but on the back cover of Roger Freeman's 'The Mighty Eighth' there's a colour photo of a line-up of four Mustangs (plus a Lightning of a photographic squadron) which, it says inside, was taken "at a fighter group commanders' meeting at Debden in March 1945".

It doesn't say whether this was 'your' meeting (no date is given), but would there have been more than one such meeting there that month? Nor does it say that those were the ONLY commanders' aircraft there ... but they might be 'your' ones?

The Mustangs were, it says, from the 359th, 20th, 353rd and 357th FG's.

Then, looking inside the book, the CO's of those units as at 23/3/1945 were:
359th: Col John P Randolph
20th: Col Robert P Montgomery
353rd: Col Ben Rimerman
357th: Col Irwin H Dregne

Don't know if this helps?

Regards

Ian