P-38's NASAF-5W 6-4-43 ... ?

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7818

Photos only state: "Chateau Dun. 1FG (NASAF-5W) 6-4-43".

Any ideas? Stateside training? North Africa? Can make out what looks to be yellow bands around stars?

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:39 pm

Well, for starters it looks like those photos are reversed. It also appears that they are 94th Fighter Squadron aircraft.

AG pilot · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:13 am **Posts:** 553

Châteaudun in France 1st Fighter Group?

Dan K · **Posted:** Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:14 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateaudu ... l_Airfield

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1595

It's Chateaudun-du-Rhumel in Algeria. Used as a base for P-38s and B-17s (etc) prior to the invasions of Sicily and Italy.

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 08, 2021 12:39 am

Here are the photos - flipped.

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It's too bad the resolution is too small to see if Jack Ilfrey's UN-O is in the pictures.

http://www.oocities.org/pentagon/quarte ... 1stfg.html

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7818

Imaged corrected & thx for the info.

M

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