Mack D Fall
Military
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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
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
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- 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
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
San Mateo, California | ||
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Revisions
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Sources
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