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Bernard L. "Big Mac" McGrattan

USAAF   Captain

DFC (x3),   AM (x5)



Born in Utica, New York.
Home in Chicago.
Joined the RAF.
Rose to the rank of F/O.
Transfered to the USAAF on 26 May 1943.
Joined the 335FS, 4th FG on 18 September 1943.
Became A (B?) flight C/O 18 April 1944.

Killed In Action on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
Bernie McGrattan
 

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McGrattan & ground crew   McGrattan & crew chief

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Victories Include :

22 Feb 1944
6 Mar 1044
18 Mar 1944
8 Apr 1944
19 Apr 1944

24 Apr 1944
1 May 1944
29 May 1944
one FW190
one Ju88
one He111
one Me109
one Me109
1/2 FW190
one FW190
one Me109
one FW190
destroyed
destroyed [1]
destroyed
destroyed
destroyed &
destroyed [2]
destroyed
destroyed
destroyed

8.5 / 0 / 0

[1] May have been an Me110
[2] Shared with Nicholas Megura, 334 Sqn.

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Thanks go out to

Dwight for the photos & infos & grandson Neil for the additional photos & infos !
(which he got from Bernie's crew chief Sy Koenig, whom, I presume, is the man in the pics with him).

On these pages I use Hugh Halliday's extensive research which includes info from numerous sources; newspaper articles via the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC); the Google News Archives; the London Gazette Archives and other sources both published and private.

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