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

20th Fighter Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

79th Fighter Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

Aircraft

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

42-67646

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

Places

Kings Cliffe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Kingscliffe, Apethorpe

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

Revisions

Date14 Jul 2016 18:42:17

ContributorAl_Skiff

ChangesChanges to middlename, service number, highest rank, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations

Sources

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Fall
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmsn.asp?SN=42-67646&Submit6=Go
https://www.fold3.com/image/28715381
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbapi.asp?Pilot=Fall%2C+Mack+D
https://www.fold3.com/page/84944530_mack_d%20fall/details/

Date27 Sep 2014 18:19:30

ContributorAAM

ChangesAAM ingest

Sources

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