Foggia Airfield Complex Photographs | World War II Database


Colonel Benjamin Davis, Jr. and Captain Edward Gleed standing in front of fellow African-American pilot Lieutenant White's P-51D Mustang 'Creamer's Dream', Europe, circa 1944	Armorers load .50 caliber ammunition into the four Browning M2 machine guns of a P-38 Lightning fighter with the USAAF 1st Fighter Group. 1944 photo probably taken at Salsola Airfield, part of the Foggia group, Italy.

Capt Andrew D Turner, 100th Fighter Squadron CO, and Lt. Clarence P. (Lucky) Lester on the Marsden Matting of Ramitelli Airstrip, Italy. Behind them is Maj Turner’s P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III.” 1 Aug 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	Pilots of the “Tuskegee Airmen,” 332nd Fighter Group in front of P-51C “Skipper’s Darlin’ III” flown by Capt Andrew Turner (2nd from right), at Ramitelli, Italy, 1 Aug 1944. Photo 1 of 2.

B-24H Liberator “Big Dog’s?” of the 739th Bomb Squadron crash landed while returning from practice mission, Bari Airfield, Italy, Aug 4 1944.	Spare and surplus USAAF aircraft at Bari Airfield, Italy, Oct 1944.

P-38L Lightning aircraft of the 27th FS, US 1st FG landing at Foggia, Italy, 1945	P-51D of the 99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group shows off it distinctive red tail, probably at Ramitelli Airfield, Italy, 1944-45.

African-American airmen of the US 332nd Fighter Group at a briefing, Ramitelli, Italy, Mar 1945	African-American airmen Roscoe Brown, Jr., Marcellus Smith, and Benjamin Davis, Jr. at Ramitelli Airfield, Italy, Mar 1945