(Dick Herbst via 55th FG Newsletter)
Capt. Jerry R. McDonald
(Dick Herbst via 55th FG Newsletter)
Capt. Jerry R. McDonald
338th FS - 08 July 1944 - 28 February 1945 (Killed in Action)
| Assigned Aircraft |
P-51D ? |
| Mission History |
Not Known |
| Mission List |
Not Known |
| Air Scores |
1-0-0 |
| Ground Scores |
1-0 |
| Score Detail |
24 December 1944 Me-109
destroyed (air) S/Coblenz 14 January 1945 Me-262 destroyed (ground) Parchim |
| Notes |
13 December 1944 - Awarded 2nd Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal 02 February 1945 - Awarded 4th Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal 16 February 1945 - Promoted from 1st Lieutenant to Captain 17 February 1945 - Awarded 5th Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal 28 February 1945 - Killed in Action. The mission was a fighter sweep in the vicinity of Munich, Germany. Capt. McDonald spotted and was strafing a train near Landshut when he was caught in the enormous explosion of the train and crashed and killed instantly. Capt. McDonald is buried at Lorraine American Military Cemetery and Memorial, St. Avold, France. He was from Texas. Reproduced with kind permission of Mr. Robert M. Littlefield from the author's book Double Nickel - Double Trouble |
| Memories | |