Mack D Fall

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Second Lieutenant Mack D. Fall, seated in cockpit, and Second Lieutenant William Gall, both pilots with the 20th Fighter Group at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already experienced in the other theatres of war - and ground media-376979.jpg FRE 85 Second Lieutenant Mack D. Fall, seated in cockpit, and Second Lieutenant William Gall, both pilots with the 20th Fighter Group at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already experienced in the other theatres of war - and ground crews swear by their ships. From briefing room to flying line, from runways to skyways and contest with the enemy, each mission represents expert planning by Operations and Intelligence and the brains and sweat of every man who prepares an order or tightens a screw on a prop. Photo shows:- 2/Lt. Mack D. Fall, San Matea, California; and 2/Lt. William Gall, Cincinnati, Ohio. U.S. Pool/SG/H. Keystone 21.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 85 - Second Lieutenant Mack D. Fall, seated in cockpit, and Second Lieutenant William Gall, both pilots with the 20th Fighter Group at Kings Cliffe air...

Crashed near Hengelo after combat with 4 ME109s in P-38J #42-67646 on 30 Jan 1944 on a bomber escort mission. Prisoner of War (POW).



AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster, PH



1/2 Do217

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Units served with

Aircraft

The burning wreck of a P-38 Lightning (serial number 42-67490) of the 496th Fighter Training Group.

42-67490

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 495th Fighter Training Group 496th Fighter Training Group 552nd Fighter Squadron 554th Fighter Training Squadron 79th Fighter Squadron

Events

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Born

San Mateo, California

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2102, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces Vol 2, King's Cliffe Memorial Edition / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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Second Lieutenant Mack D. Fall, seated in cockpit, and Second Lieutenant William Gall, both pilots with the 20th Fighter Group at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already experienced in the other theatres of war - and ground

Object number: FRE 85 - Second Lieutenant Mack D. Fall, seated in cockpit...