Malcolm James MacLeod Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
USAAF Photo.
Object Number - UPL 6972 - The remains of crashed de Havilland Mosquito PR XVI WX-L of the 653rd Bombardment Squadron 25th Bombardment Group near Harrington airbase 24th...
Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Lost an engine on take-off for weather mission and crashed in de Havilland DH98 Mosquito XVI NS630. KIFA 22 November 1944.
1st Lt Malcolm J. Mac Leod was piloting Mosquito NS630 and started the approach at Watton airfield on return from a Blue Stocking night mission on 22 November 1944. He was ordered to another airfield due to bad weather conditions, but after making one pass, Mac Leod informed the control tower that he could see the runway. Flying out for a second pass, radio contact was lost over Merton. Flying very low, the Mosquito hit tree tops and crashed in a field between the villages of Merton and Thompson. Pilot 1st Lt Malcolm J. Mac Leod and Navigator Lt Milford B. Hopkins were both killed in the crash.
Awards: AM (OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron 401st Bomb Squadron 653rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19079017
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 653rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18140249 / O-865981
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Westchester County, NY, USA | 23 August 1916 | Son of Malcolm J and Edith W MacLeod. |
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Enlisted |
New York, NY, USA | 17 April 1943 | |
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Other Killed in fying accident |
Tangmere, Chichester, UK | 22 October 1944 | Take Off Accident RAF Tangmere Cat 5 damage 1Lt Malcolm J MacLeod Jr, 22-Oct-44. Mosquito Mk XVI NS514 - 653WRX 25BGR 8AF. |
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Buried |
23 October 1944 | Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK Plot D Row 3 Grave 72 | |
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Based |
Watton | 22 November 1944 | Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Buried |
Saint John's Presbyterian Cemetery Belfast, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada | Memorialised Saint John's Presbyterian Cemetery Belfast, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
Revisions
Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.
Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- ABMC website
NARA WWII Enlistment Records
Research file on BS630
- Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 53, 176 ;
- the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
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http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbapi.asp?Pilot=MacLeod%2C+Malco…
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56291956 - NB. Not a Sgt from PA.
ABMC / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
