“...It was anticlimactic” - Victory in Europe Day for the 371st Fighter Group
After the guns fell silent, 371st Fighter Group Thunderbolt pilot Capt. Lincoln Derick of Sewaren, New Jersey stood for a photo with a 404th Fighter Squadron Republic P-47D-28-RE Thunderbolt Serial 44-20284, squadron code 9Q-O bar. Derick was assigned to the 404th Fighter Squadron, one of three fighter squadrons then assigned to the group (405th and 406th Fighter Squadrons). The photo was taken at Fürth-Industriehafen Airfield in Germany where the group was stationed between early May and mid-August, 1945. After the war, the 404th was redesignated as the 186th Fighter Squadron and allotted to the state of Montana. It is the Montana Air National Guard’s 186th Airlift Squadron today. (USAF Historical Research Agency)
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