Mack Dunlap Fall

Military

Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Brunswick. Shot down Deventer, Holland in P-38J 42-67646 Lt Fall baled out POW. 30-Jan-44. MACR 2102.

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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.
  • 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
  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Nicknames: Kentucky Kernel
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 79th Fighter Squadron

Places

Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Moffett Field Ops, 556 Edquiba Rd, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA 14 January 1942

Other

Crashed

Clover Street, Langley, WA 98260, USA 20 December 1942 Taxiing Accident Clover Field, Whidby Island, WA Cat 4 damage, pilot Lt Mack D Fall, 20-Dec-42. P-39D 41-28312 - 79FS 20FG

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Barth, Germany 30 January 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.

Other

Shot down

Deventer, Netherlands 30 January 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Brunswick. Shot down Deventer, Holland in P-38J 42-67646 Lt Fall baled out POW. 30-Jan-44. MACR 2102.

Born

Washington, USA

Other

Assigned

King's Cliffe, Peterborough PE8, UK 30 January 1944 Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF.
San Mateo County, CA, USA SanMateo County, California

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Sources

MACR 2102 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database