Wendell O Pruitt

Military
media-24808.png UPL 24808 Captain Wendell O. Pruitt (Left) with a member of his ground crew
P-51C "Alice-Jo"
332nd FG - 302nd FS - 15th AF

Object Number - UPL 24808 - Captain Wendell O. Pruitt (Left) with a member of his ground crew P-51C "Alice-Jo" 332nd FG - 302nd FS - 15th AF

Credited with downing three Bf-109's

Awarded a DFC for his attack of a German Navy vessel in the harbor of Trieste, Italy

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Born

Saint Louis, MO, USA 20 June 1920

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Graduated Pilot Training/Commissioned

Tuskegee, AL, USA 13 December 1942 Class 42-K-SE

Died

Tuskegee, AL, USA 15 April 1945 On April 15, 1945, during one of the training missions, Pruitt and a trainee were killed in an air accident. After his death, the city of St. Louis named the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project after Captain Pruitt and William L. Igoe, a former United States Congressman

Buried

Normandy, MO, USA 20 April 1945 Saint Peter's Cemetery Normandy St. Louis County Missouri, USA Plot: Section 29, Lot 192

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