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P47 Pilots Biographies, Last Name Starting With "M"
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Pilot Name
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Biography Summary
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Jill Sutton McCormick
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World War II found Professor McCormick
in the experimental Cadets' school, WASP
(Women Airforce Service Pilots). She was
accepted into the WASP with 100 hours of
cross-country flying. Up until this time, flying cadets had all been men.
WASP training was identical to the men
cadet's school except that the women had no
combat training. They were to take over
domestic flying duties for the men so that
more male cadets could be sent overseas for
combat duty.
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Charles E. McCreary
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During the course of
100 + missions, survived the Purple Heart
with a few Clusters and was awarded the Air
Medal with Clusters, the DFC w /Cluster and
the Silver Star. During tour thru Italy, Corsica, and back to Italy was able to check-out in
B-25 and Hand Price's Spitfire. Still feel the
JUG was the most rugged and dependable
Fighter ever built.
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Philip E. McCullough
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While a POW he provided camp entertainment as a violinist on a violin provided by the
Red Cross. As an accomplished violinist he
answered all requests of his fellow POWs -
day or night.
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Howard V. McDonald
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Have built 2 experimental airplanes. One
which is a half scale P-47 Thunderbolt, having flown the P-47 at Williams Field, Arizona in 1946. Air transport pilot total flight
time to date - 11,550 hours. Type ratings
- Boeing 707, 720, Lear Jet, Cessna Citation, Multi engine, Single engine.
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F.M. McElhannon
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I'll never forget the first time I ever used enough manifold pressure to
engage the water injection at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. For a split second it scared the
devil out of me, but once I realized what had
happened everything was O.K.
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Donald Francis McEmber
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.........member 525th Fighter Squadron -
86th Fighter Group - 106 Missions -
DFC - Air medal with seven oak leaf clusters
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2nd Lt. William J. McGowan
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Lt. William Bill J. McGowan was a P-47 pilot in the 366th Fighter Group, 391st Fighter Squadron during World War II. The P-47 he was flying was shot down on D-Day, June 6, 1944 while on a low-level mission near St. Lo in Normandy and did not survive the crash.
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Thomas McHenry
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After "D-Day" the 373rd Fighter
Group moved to a beach airstrip and was
assigned as air support for the Third Army
working closely with General Patton's
troops. The 373rd made numerous moves
and finally wound up in Louvane, Belgium,
before the Battle of The Bulge.
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Burt H. McIntosh
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Retaining some of the daring of the old-time
Thunderbolt pilots, he recently completed a
motorized hang glider which should show
that Thunderbolt pilots never die, "they just
try to".....
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Grover H. McLaughlin
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He was assigned to the 351st Fighter
Squadron in the 353rd Fighter Group in the
European Theater of Operations upon completion of his training in P-47 Thunderbolts.
The Group was stationed at Raydon which
was between Colchester and Ipswich, England, and he arrived just before D-Day. He
completed his tour in the E.T.O. within five
months after flying 280 combat hours.
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