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UPL 13672

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 13672
  • Description: Major Pierce W. "Mac" McKennon.

UPL 26524

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 26524
  • Description: Major McKennon 4th FG

UPL 13673

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 13673
  • Description: "Mac" McKennon playing the piano at the Officers' Mess, Debden.

UPL 13674

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 13674
  • Description: Major Pierce W. McKennon being decorated at an unknown awards ceremony.

UPL 13676

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 13676
  • Description: Major Pierce W. "Mac" McKennon and his P-51 Mustang "Ridge Runner".

UPL 15509

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 15509
  • Description: Major Pierce McKennon with his P-51D Mustang 'RIDGE RUNNER II'.

UPL 15394

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 15394
  • Description: 18 March 1945. 1st Lt Pierce McKennon tries to answer questions immediately after returning from a frenetic mission. Original caption by Frank Speer...

UPL 20673

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 20673
  • Description: Major Pierce W McKennon 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF.

UPL 14930

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 14930
  • Description: On 18 March 1945, while strafing an airfield near Berlin, Major Pierce W. McKennon (left), was forced to bale out of his flak damaged aircraft. He...

UPL 13675

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 13675
  • Description: Major Pierce W. McKennon (far left) in a P-51 Mustang demonstrating how one of his pilots, George Green, rescued him from Germany by sitting on his...

UPL 15512

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 15512
  • Description: Major Pierce McKennon in the cockpit of his P-51D Mustang 'RIDGE RUNNER IV', the last in a series of aircraft with this name.

UPL 23258

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 23258
  • Description: The Eagle Squadron insignia as depicted on the last page of Major Pierce "Mac" McKennon's log book. Even after the Eagle's transfer to the Army Air...
A P-51 Mustang (WD-A, serial number 42-106911) nicknamed "Yippee Joe" of the 335th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, flown by Pierce McKennon, 26 April 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Apr.-May '44. Circa-4-26-44. Source - J. Sills

FRE 12362

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Roger Freeman Collection
  • Object Number: FRE 12362
  • Description: A P-51 Mustang (WD-A, serial number 42-106911) nicknamed "Yippee Joe" of the 335th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, flown by Pierce McKennon, 26...

UPL 20747

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 20747
  • Description: Maj. Pierce W McKennon, [Fort Smith AR]. 335th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-14570 WD-A "Ridge Runner". This is the first of Maj. McKennon's a/c to carry...
Pierce W. McKennon, an ace pilot with the 4th Fighter Group, at Debden. He wears an A-2 flight jacket and a "fifty mission crush" cap.

FRE 21

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Roger Freeman Collection
  • Object Number: FRE 21
  • Description: Pierce W. McKennon, an ace pilot with the 4th Fighter Group, at Debden. He wears an A-2 flight jacket and a "fifty mission crush" cap.

UPL 20754

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 20754
  • Description: Maj. Pierce W McKennon, [Fort Smith AR]. 335th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-14221 WD-A "Ridge Runner II".

UPL 14945

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 14945
  • Description: 17 April 1945 - Major Pierce W. McKennon's P-51D Mustang 'Ridge Runner III' after being crash-landed in France by another 335th Fighter Squadron pilot...

UPL 23228

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 23228
  • Description: The front cover to Major Pierce "Mac" McKennon's log book. After being washed out of pilots training in the US, Mac joined the RAF and later...

UPL 32408

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 32408
  • Description: Pierce "Mac" McKennon's draft registration card. Note father's signature written below Mac's at the lower right corner. This would have been filled...

UPL 21795

  • Media Type: Image
  • Object Number: UPL 21795
  • Description: The aircraft in the foreground is the North American P-51D 44-63670 WD-O, "T-Wang" piloted by Capt Albert Davis. The second plane is North American P...