Jack L Gard

Military
media-29863.jpeg UPL 29863 2Lt Jack Gard 20th FG J Cook photo collection and archives

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Object Number - UPL 29863 - 2Lt Jack Gard 20th FG

Wingman 77th FS 20th FG Aug 1943 - Dec 1943

1 ME-109 destroyed air 6:35 combat hours.

Shot down by Me109 and captured Dec. 1, 1943 while flying P-38H s/n 42-66723.

Held at Stalag Luft I Barth, Germany. MACR #1425









1 FW190

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Units served with

Aircraft

42-66723

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 77th Fighter Squadron

Places

Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.

Stalag Luft I

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1425 / MACR 1425, King's Cliffe Memorial Edition / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

Jack L Gard: Gallery (2 items)

Second Lieutenant Jack L. Gard seated in cockpit of P-38 Lightning, and First Lieutenant Paul J. Saba, with map, at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Both men belong to the 20th Fighter Group. 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

Object number: FRE 67 - Second Lieutenant Jack L. Gard seated in cockpit...

Object number: UPL 29863 - 2Lt Jack Gard 20th FG