1/Lt. Richard J. Keough
338th FS - June 1944 - 12 August 1944 (Prisoner of War)
| Assigned Aircraft |
P-51D 44-14028 |
| Mission History |
Not Known |
| Mission List |
Not Known |
| Air Scores |
0-0-0 |
| Ground Scores |
0-0 |
| Notes | Entered service from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. MACR No. 07773 The mission was bombing and strafing near Longruyon, France. 1/Lt. David R. Hailer, Jr. reported: "I was leading Acorn Blue flight and Lt. Keough was flying Blue four. we made a pass at some oil cars. One of the cars blew up as he passed over it damaging his coolant system. We immediately set course for home. About fifteen minutes later his engine froze up and caught fire. I told him to bail out, he answered OK, rolled his ship over and bailed out at 10,000 feet, chute opening immediately. I followed him down taking pictures. He landed on the edge of a forest. This is the last that I saw of him." German J 1939 reported Lt. Keough captured after being shot down "by a fighter"! He was imprisoned in Stalag Luft VII A, Moosburg. Those that had been downed during the same period had previously been imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, Sagan; after a trip through Oberursel and Dulag Luft, Wetzlar. Reproduced with kind permission of Mr. Robert M. Littlefield from the author's book Double Nickel - Double Trouble |
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