56th Operations Group
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The 56th Operations Group is a unit of the United States Air Force, and the flying component of the 56th Fighter Wing.
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F-16 of the 62d Fighter Squadron ready for takeoff at Luke
F-16C Block 42J Fighting Falcon 90-0768 flies over the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico during a QF-4 drone chase.
Hubert Zemke
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Colonel Hubert Zemke was a career officer in the United States Air Force, a fighter pilot in World War II, and a leading United States Army Air Forces ace. He commanded the 56th Fighter Group in Engla
56th Operations Group
…the U.S. VIII Fighter Command with a single fighter group. To rebuild the fighter forces, the 56th FG was assigned for overseas duty in England. Major Hubert A. Zemke, a pre-war Air Corps pilot with experience as a combat observer with the RAF and a P-40 instructor to the Soviet Air Force, became group commander on…
Republic P-47D-22-RE Thunderbolt of the 63d Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group. Pilot 2nd Lt. Elwood D. Raymond, KIA on September 18th, 1944, by flak and crashed in North Sea during operation Market Garden.
Zemke (standing second from left) and other commanding officers of the fighter groups of the 8th Air Force in 1944