The Man Behind the Name
T/Sgt. Mark Fitzgerald served as flight engineer aboard B-24D 42-40265 with the 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. He was from Fitzgerald, Georgia. His name appears in the MACR as 'Pitzgerald, Mahk' due to OCR or transcription error.
Fitzgerald filed an individual casualty questionnaire describing the crash landing on August 1, 1943, during the Ploesti raid. He confirmed that pilot Womble suffered a leg injury at the time of the crash. His status is listed as EUS (evaded/unknown status) on the MACR. His return address on the questionnaire was listed as 6-3861, AF.
Service record.
Missions flown.
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.