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P47 Pilots Biographies, Last Name Starting With "F"
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Pilot Name
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Biography Summary
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James W. Faehl
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Released from active duty in 1946 he
began a career as a Designer/Engineer at
Wright-Patterson AFB. Projects included
aircraft maintenance stands, runway sweepers. aircraft modifications, and aircrew training equipment. From 1961 through 1978
he was a Project Engineer in Flight Simulators, including the first all-digitally-computed flight simulator to enter the Air
Force inventory, the C-135B.
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Robert W. Falconer
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Joined the 373rd Fighter Group,
41Oth Squadron, in the fall of 1944 and flew
66 missions in France, Belgium and the Ruhr
valley of Germany. Missions were dive bomb.
ing and strafing primarily in close support to
the ground forces. Dead-sticked a flak damaged "Jug" in Belgium on the friendly side of
the front line - the clock and camera still
worked.
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James Fall
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James Fall was born 27 April 1923 in rural Fulton County, Indiana. He was a son of a WW 1 Air Corps veteran. While attending Manchester College he volunteered for the Army Air Corps 1 July 1942. He began cadet training in Classification and Pre-Flight Centers at San Antonio, Texas; received Primary Flight training at Victory Field, Vernon, Texas; Basic Flight training at Enid Army Air Base, Enid, Oklahoma. He graduated from Advanced Flight training with the Class of 43-J, 3 November 1943, at Foster Field, Victoria, Texas. After a few hours flying P-40s at Foster he was sent to Transitional Flight training in P-47s at Perry Army Air Base, Perry, Florida.
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James F. Farrell
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In the Spring of 1945, the gas-guzzling Jug
was in danger of being eliminated from the
ever gasoline-short 14th Air Force in favor of
the P-51. Farrell was one of eight pilots sent
on detached service with their P47's to a
P-51 outfit in Hsian, China, (the end of the
longest supply line in WW II) to prove the
P47.
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Glenn W. Faulkner
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Glenn Faulkner was shot down and killed April 22, 1945 in Northern Italy. He was a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter as part of the British 8th Army, 85th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force at the time of his death.
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Frederick H. Le Febre
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Of the many fighter planes he flew, which
in addition to the P47 included such planes
as the P40, P51, P8O, T33, F86, F1O1,
F102 and the Mach 2 F106, he says the
sentimental favorite is the faithful old Jug.
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Gene B. Fetrow
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On his 56th mission while escorting light
attack bombers on the Dieppe Commando
Raid he was shot down by a Focke-Wulf 190
with an incredible full-deflection shot!!!
Fortunately he was able to bailout of the
burning plane and landed in the Dieppe
Harbor where he was rescued by the returning commandos
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Alfred L. Fetters
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Volunteered special-assignment overseas
- Destination Unknown. Arrived Sarragea
Air Base, Corsica, 85th Ftr. Sqdn., 79th Ftr.
Group, 31 July, 1944 ... Here he was
introduced to the P-47 Bubble Type D Fighter Bomber with first mission flown Aug. 10,1944. The following months, through V.E.
Day, he flew 100 missions over enemy lines.
Including destruction of airfields, railcars
and marshalling yards, trucking, tanks, gun
emplacements, maritime shipping, bomber
escort, and air support to ground forces.
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Kathryn (Sis) Fine
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She was instructing in Pawling, N.Y. when
she heard about the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron. Became one of the original
twenty.seven women in the WAFS in January, 1943, at New Castle Army Air Base in
Wilmington, Del. Ferried PT-19's, L-2B's,
L-4B's, PT-26's, PT-23's, AT-6's, C-78's and
C-61's. Received instrument rating at St. Jo.,
Mo., flying PT-13's and C-47's. Then was
sent to pursuit school in Brownsville, Texas,
where she checked out in P-40's, P-51's,
P-39's and P-47's.
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James J. Finnegan
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In December, 1979, Finnegan was notified that an ME-262 he had claimed as
"damaged and probable" while flying a JUG
in a B-26 escort mission on April 25, 1945,
turned out to be an actual downing of a
German jet fighter piloted by Lt Gen Adolph
Galland. Galland was a leading Luftwaffe
fighter ace with 104 kills, all on the western
front. The notification to Finnegan came
from a researcher who confirmed this after
thorough examination of Air Force Records
and Galland's own account in his autobiography "The First and the Last."
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