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Personal info

Full name
MAC CONKEY, Jack Sheldon
Date of birth
23 October 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Des Moines, Scott County, Iowa
Hometown
Grant City, Worth County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
T-223082
Rank
Flight Officer
Function
Pilot
Unit
358th Fighter Squadron,
355th Fighter Group
Awards
Distinguished Flying Cross,
Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 April 1944
Place of death
Frankershausen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 27 13

Immediate family

Members
Jay S. McConkey (father)
M. Vincelle Hall (mother)
Elizabeth I McConkey (sister)
Julia J McConkey (sister)
Jon W Hall (half-brother)
Violet A Hall (stepsister)
Virginia R Hall (stepsister)
Donald J McConkey (half brother)
Richard G McConkey (half brother)
Mack McConkey (half brother)

Plane data

Serial number
43-7156
Data
Type: P-51B
Destination: -
Mission: Rodeo Mission (fighter sweep over enemy territory)
MACR: 4319

More information

F/O Jack S. Mac Conkey attended Grant City High School.

Before he volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States on 8 October 1943 in Worth, Missouri, he served with the RCAF.

According to Capt Harold J. Hoffman, who was flying in the same group, he noticed that F/O MacConkey was being attacked by a FW 190 who was getting on his tail. He called him and told him to stay in the same turn. Capt Hoffman went after the FW 190. As he began to fire, there was an explosion in his left wing as a result of an attack of another FW 190 on himself. As he came closer he saw the FW 190 chasing Mac Conkey, firing, and the airplane burst into flames. F/O Mac Conkey had no chance to bail out.

F/O Mac Conkey was initially buried on 21 April 1944 in the cemetery of Eschwege.

During enlistment, his name, Mac Conkey, was noted incorrectly as Mac Conkey.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone an Interment Record / Enlistment Record / 1940 Census, www.fold3.com - MACR

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Grant City High School 1940 / www.findagrave.com