Mack Fitzgerald
MilitaryRear : Left to Right : Leo Sharp - Pilot Hubert Womble - Arthur Thompson - Lawrence Lancashire
Front : Left to Right : Jack Reed - Howard Ford - Mack Fitzgerald - William Little - John English.
Removed punctuation marks from around aircraft name for clarity, uniformity, and readability. - Kickapoo
Assigned to 409BS, 93BG, 8Air Force, USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) from the Ploesti mission in the B-24D, 42-40265, Honkey Tonk Gal. Force landed in Romania. Prisoner of War. POW. 1 Aug 43. MACR 330
Awards: DFC, AM, PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME (4 battle stars).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18062178 / O-663978
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: - Honkey Tonk Gal - Naked Truth
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 409th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Fitzgerald, Georgia | 2 May 1920 | Son of Tharp and Beatrice [Vaughn] Fitzgerald. |
Enlisted |
Fort Benning, GA | 30 December 1941 | Fort Benning, Georgia |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Bucharest, Romania | 1 August 1943 | Prisoner of War (POW). Romania |
Other Force landed POW |
Vicinity Ploesti, Romania | 1 August 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Ploesti raid in B-24 42-40265 'Honky Tonk Gal' 1-Aug-43; force landed Romania POW MACR 330 |
Died |
Fitzgerald, GA | 10 April 2019 | |
Buried |
Evergreen Cemetery Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, GA | 14 April 2019 | Evergreen Cemetery Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia |
Revisions
Removed punctuation marks from around aircraft name for clarity, uniformity, and readablity. - Kickapoo
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Self, MACR 330