Christmas 1944 Fowlmere, UK

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:00 pm

P-51Ds of the 339th FG on the line at Fowlmere, England Dec. 1944

Mgawa · **Posted:** Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:59 am

On the plane L fuselage start does not look white at all! Explananion?

Chicoartist · **Posted:** Fri Dec 26, 2008 3:28 pm

We're at Granny's house for the holly-daze, so I'm way away from my refs like Freeman's Airfields of the Eighth, Then and Now, but IIRC Fowlmere never had one or any C-hangars per the background. I think the one they had was a T-2 or something like that - the shell of which is still on site. Possibly the pic shows them at Bassingbourn or another permanent base that did have them.

Wade

Mark V · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:05 am

Mgawa wrote:

On the plane L fuselage star does not look white at all! Explananion?

The areas of white on national insignia were sometimes toned down a little in the field to reduce conspicuity.

Mark V · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:07 am

Chicoartist wrote:

Possibly the pic shows them at Bassingbourn or another permanent base that did have them.

Wade

Quite likely I think Wade. Fowlmere was very difficult to distinguish from Duxford when first built but the permenant hangars were demolished in the 20's.

warbird51 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:18 pm **Posts:** 263

In the 80's, I worked with a guy who had been with the 339 FG and was a ordnance guy who hung the bombs and drop tanks on the P-51's at Fowlmere. I really enjoyed his stories and the photo's he would bring in to share with me. He was delighted to find someone who was interested in what he had experienced during the war.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:14 pm

I went by the caption but for sure it's England!!
You know sorta dark and dreary :idea:

Glyn · **Joined:** Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:23 am **Posts:** 321

Jack Cook wrote:

I went by the caption but for sure it's England!!
You know sorta dark and dreary :idea:

Well the Southwest corner of the British Isles where I come from hasn't had a flake of snow in seven years! How about you? The last time I drove through Oregon it never stopped raining. O wot a larf! :twisted:

bobbrunn · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:50 pm

Those appear to be 339th markings on the nose. Don't know the location. They may be weathered in somewhere other than Fowlmere.

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