Pruitt John R Lt

Assigned Aircraft

P-38H 42-67021

Mission History

Not Known

Mission List

55th FG Mission #	Date	Target
04	18 October 1943	Sweep - Dutch Islands
	22 October 1943	n/a "fouled" and was unable to fly
08	24 October 1943	St. Andre L'Eure (Red 2)
09	03 November 1943	Wilhemshaven (Spare)
10	05 November 1943	Gelsenkirchen (Blue 2) (Returned early as left engine was cutting out)
11	07 November 1943	Sweep - Ostend-St. Omer Area (Yellow 4)
15	13 November 1943	Bremen (White 4)
16	25 November 1943	Sweep - Lille Area (Yellow 4)
26	22 December 1943	Osnabruck

Air Scores

0-0-0

Ground Scores

0-0

Notes

Entered service from Medford, Oregon
ASN - 0-743498
22 December 1943 - Killed in Action
MACR No. 01533
2/Lt. Merle Blanchard reported: "I was flying in the same formation with Lt. John R. Pruitt, and we had reached the R/V point about 15 miles from the target when we were attacked by enemy fighters. We dropped our belly tanks and shortly after that I saw Lt. Pruitt's ship dropping down below. I presumed that he had not yet switched tanks after dropping belly tanks. This is the last time I saw Lt. Pruitt."

2/Lt. Pruitt was from Oregon. His name is on the Wall of the Missing, Netherlands American Military Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.
(Reproduced with the kind permission of Mr. Robert M. Littlefield, from the author's book, Double Nickel, Double Trouble.)

Memories

Additional Photo

Lt. Pruitt's name on the Wall of the Missing, at the Netherlands American Military Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands. (T. Berendsen)
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