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PRESCOTT, Walter Allison Servoss - Date of
birth
1922 -
Age
unknown - Place of
birth
Canada -
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O-722153 -
Rank
First Lieutenant -
Function
Pilot -
Unit
350th Fighter Squadron,
353rd Fighter Group
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Awards
Air Medal with 9 Oak Leaf Clusters
Death
-
Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
16 April 1945 - Place of
death
Near Pocking, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| C | 37 | 1 |
Immediate family
-
Members
Alleta (Servoss) Humphreys (mother)
Thomas H. Prescott (brother)
Plane data
- Serial
number
44-72175 -
Data
Type: P-51D
Nickname: Little Red II
Destination: Traunstein, Germany
Mission: Area Patrol & W/D Support
MACR: 13972
More information
Walter Prescott was a hotel clerk.He joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in New York City, New york on 14 November 1942.
Statement from Capt Melville W. Hightshoe, who participated in the mission: "I was leading Seldom Yellow Flight. We were strafing an airdrome northeast of Munich. Lt Prescott was flying my left wing. We made many passes at the field and somehow I became separated from the rest of the flight. I heard Seldom 56 (Lt Prescott) call in and say his leg was broken. Col Rimerman asked him to try to fly the plane back to the lines. L. Prescott replied that he was unable to stop the flow of blood. Col Rimerman then told him to belly in and someone else told him to try to staunch his wound with the bandage in his first aid kit on his parachute. Whether he did any of these I do not know because that was the last I heard of him".
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – Headstone and Interment
Record, www.fold3.com - MACR
Photo source: Jac Engels, Pilot 44-C Moore Fd TX, 353 FG History