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Home Archive Search Units 357th Fighter Group Object Number - FRE 5264 - The insignia of the 357th Fighter Group. The 357th Fighter Group was the first P-51 Mustang Group in the Eighth Air Force, training with them from November 1943 at Raydon, England and entering combat with them in the February of the following year from their new base at Leiston. Unit: 357th Fighter Group Unit: 357th Fighter Group 362nd Fighter Squadron Unit: 357th Fighter Group Object number: FRE 2329 - P-51 Mustangs (CV-Q) of the 359th Fighter Group,... Object number: FRE 3102 - Don Bochkay a pilot of the 357th Fighter Group... Object number: FRE 3105 - A damaged P-51 Mustang of the 357th Fighter Group.

The 357th Fighter Group was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. The 357th operated P-51 Mustang aircraft as part of the U.S. Eighth Air Force and its members were known unofficially as the Yoxford Boys after the village of Yoxford near their base in the UK. Air-to-air contacts declined in the following month, but one notable combat occurred during an escort mission to Bremen on 12 October 1944, when 1st Lt. Chuck Yeager claimed five German fighters to become an "Ace in a day", and the group scored its 400th kill.[19] Yeager had been with the group since its inception but had only been credited with 1.5 kills to that point.

Weapons and Warfare > Blog > Air Warfare > 357th fighter Group – ‘The Yoxford Boys’. The 357th Fighter Group was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. The 357th operated P-51 Mustang aircraft as part of the U.S. Eighth Air Force and its members were known unofficially as “The Yoxford Boys” after a village near their base. At the end of March 1944 there were operating in the Eighth Air Force, and in addition the Ninth’s 354th Group, three groups the 4th, 355th, and 357th with 140 P-51 completely operational. Even though the Ninth Air Force, a tactical organization, received the first group of P-51s to reach the United Kingdom, these aircraft escorted strategic bombers of the Eighth Air Force on missions deep into Germany.