Son of Malcolm Nickels and Margaret Prince Pattangall. Mackie died in a flight training accident over the North Sea (see details below).
His Heritage
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On his father's side he was descended 6 times from Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and twice from passenger Stephen Hopkins. His paternal list of Patriots of the American Revolution include Daniel Pettingell of Windham, ME; Isaiah Hersey Sr. & Jr., Minutemen of Hingham; Col. Aaron Hobart of Abington; Captain Micah Blackwell, Minuteman of Sandwich; and Moses Worcester, James Hall, Ichabod Austin, Jonathan Small, Daniel Lancaster, Jacob Clifford, Levi Fowler, and James Nichols - all Maine patriots and soldiers and sailors of the Penobscot region.
Mackie was also a direct descendant of Nathan Pattangall of Windham & Perry, ME, a soldier in the War of 1812.
He was 5th cousin 3x removed of President Abraham Lincoln, both men directly descended from the immigrant Samuel Lincoln, the weaver, who arrived in 1637.
He was an agnate male descendant of Richard Matthew Pettingell, a founder of Newbury MA, who arrived in 1641.
His great grand uncle, Capt. William Robinson Pattangall of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery died in the Civil War at Spotsylvania 19 May 1864 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery Capt William R. Pattangall
Lt. Pattangall was a student at Boston's Northeastern University's College of Engineering prior to enlisting for service in WW II. He would have graduated with the class of 1946. His name is inscribed on the University's Veterans' Memorial.
Military
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Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces
788th Bomber Squadron, 467th Bomber Group, Heavy.
Service # O-709962.
Awards: Air Medal
The Aircraft
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Target: Training mission - Mackie was listed as a Navigator
Serial Number:# 42-50580
Aircraft Model B-24 H
Location: North sea This ship is listed as damaged, salvaged September 1944.
Cause: Brought down in the North sea by a jammed stray machine gun from another ship while on a training mission.
6 crew killed in the line of duty; 4 Returned to Duty.
Others of the Crew of 42-50580 lost on this date:
1st/Lt. William V. Prewitte Pilot
2nd/Lt. William H. Hall Co Pilot
1st/Lt. Edward C. Grooms Navigator
1st/Lt. George R. Godshalk Jr. Bombardier
S/Sgt. Oliver E Meredith Jr. Engineer
He has no known grave and the Official Point of Commemoration is the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge, England.
His Heritage
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On his father's side he was descended 6 times from Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and twice from passenger Stephen Hopkins. His paternal list of Patriots of the American Revolution include Daniel Pettingell of Windham, ME; Isaiah Hersey Sr. & Jr., Minutemen of Hingham; Col. Aaron Hobart of Abington; Captain Micah Blackwell, Minuteman of Sandwich; and Moses Worcester, James Hall, Ichabod Austin, Jonathan Small, Daniel Lancaster, Jacob Clifford, Levi Fowler, and James Nichols - all Maine patriots and soldiers and sailors of the Penobscot region.
Mackie was also a direct descendant of Nathan Pattangall of Windham & Perry, ME, a soldier in the War of 1812.
He was 5th cousin 3x removed of President Abraham Lincoln, both men directly descended from the immigrant Samuel Lincoln, the weaver, who arrived in 1637.
He was an agnate male descendant of Richard Matthew Pettingell, a founder of Newbury MA, who arrived in 1641.
His great grand uncle, Capt. William Robinson Pattangall of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery died in the Civil War at Spotsylvania 19 May 1864 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery Capt William R. Pattangall
Lt. Pattangall was a student at Boston's Northeastern University's College of Engineering prior to enlisting for service in WW II. He would have graduated with the class of 1946. His name is inscribed on the University's Veterans' Memorial.
Military
--------
Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces
788th Bomber Squadron, 467th Bomber Group, Heavy.
Service # O-709962.
Awards: Air Medal
The Aircraft
------------
Target: Training mission - Mackie was listed as a Navigator
Serial Number:# 42-50580
Aircraft Model B-24 H
Location: North sea This ship is listed as damaged, salvaged September 1944.
Cause: Brought down in the North sea by a jammed stray machine gun from another ship while on a training mission.
6 crew killed in the line of duty; 4 Returned to Duty.
Others of the Crew of 42-50580 lost on this date:
1st/Lt. William V. Prewitte Pilot
2nd/Lt. William H. Hall Co Pilot
1st/Lt. Edward C. Grooms Navigator
1st/Lt. George R. Godshalk Jr. Bombardier
S/Sgt. Oliver E Meredith Jr. Engineer
He has no known grave and the Official Point of Commemoration is the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge, England.
Son of Malcolm Nickels and Margaret Prince Pattangall. Mackie died in a flight training accident over the North Sea (see details below).
His Heritage
------------
On his father's side he was descended 6 times from Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and twice from passenger Stephen Hopkins. His paternal list of Patriots of the American Revolution include Daniel Pettingell of Windham, ME; Isaiah Hersey Sr. & Jr., Minutemen of Hingham; Col. Aaron Hobart of Abington; Captain Micah Blackwell, Minuteman of Sandwich; and Moses Worcester, James Hall, Ichabod Austin, Jonathan Small, Daniel Lancaster, Jacob Clifford, Levi Fowler, and James Nichols - all Maine patriots and soldiers and sailors of the Penobscot region.
Mackie was also a direct descendant of Nathan Pattangall of Windham & Perry, ME, a soldier in the War of 1812.
He was 5th cousin 3x removed of President Abraham Lincoln, both men directly descended from the immigrant Samuel Lincoln, the weaver, who arrived in 1637.
He was an agnate male descendant of Richard Matthew Pettingell, a founder of Newbury MA, who arrived in 1641.
His great grand uncle, Capt. William Robinson Pattangall of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery died in the Civil War at Spotsylvania 19 May 1864 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery Capt William R. Pattangall
Lt. Pattangall was a student at Boston's Northeastern University's College of Engineering prior to enlisting for service in WW II. He would have graduated with the class of 1946. His name is inscribed on the University's Veterans' Memorial.
Military
--------
Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces
788th Bomber Squadron, 467th Bomber Group, Heavy.
Service # O-709962.
Awards: Air Medal
The Aircraft
------------
Target: Training mission - Mackie was listed as a Navigator
Serial Number:# 42-50580
Aircraft Model B-24 H
Location: North sea This ship is listed as damaged, salvaged September 1944.
Cause: Brought down in the North sea by a jammed stray machine gun from another ship while on a training mission.
6 crew killed in the line of duty; 4 Returned to Duty.
Others of the Crew of 42-50580 lost on this date:
1st/Lt. William V. Prewitte Pilot
2nd/Lt. William H. Hall Co Pilot
1st/Lt. Edward C. Grooms Navigator
1st/Lt. George R. Godshalk Jr. Bombardier
S/Sgt. Oliver E Meredith Jr. Engineer
He has no known grave and the Official Point of Commemoration is the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge, England.
His Heritage
------------
On his father's side he was descended 6 times from Mayflower passenger Richard Warren and twice from passenger Stephen Hopkins. His paternal list of Patriots of the American Revolution include Daniel Pettingell of Windham, ME; Isaiah Hersey Sr. & Jr., Minutemen of Hingham; Col. Aaron Hobart of Abington; Captain Micah Blackwell, Minuteman of Sandwich; and Moses Worcester, James Hall, Ichabod Austin, Jonathan Small, Daniel Lancaster, Jacob Clifford, Levi Fowler, and James Nichols - all Maine patriots and soldiers and sailors of the Penobscot region.
Mackie was also a direct descendant of Nathan Pattangall of Windham & Perry, ME, a soldier in the War of 1812.
He was 5th cousin 3x removed of President Abraham Lincoln, both men directly descended from the immigrant Samuel Lincoln, the weaver, who arrived in 1637.
He was an agnate male descendant of Richard Matthew Pettingell, a founder of Newbury MA, who arrived in 1641.
His great grand uncle, Capt. William Robinson Pattangall of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery died in the Civil War at Spotsylvania 19 May 1864 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery Capt William R. Pattangall
Lt. Pattangall was a student at Boston's Northeastern University's College of Engineering prior to enlisting for service in WW II. He would have graduated with the class of 1946. His name is inscribed on the University's Veterans' Memorial.
Military
--------
Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces
788th Bomber Squadron, 467th Bomber Group, Heavy.
Service # O-709962.
Awards: Air Medal
The Aircraft
------------
Target: Training mission - Mackie was listed as a Navigator
Serial Number:# 42-50580
Aircraft Model B-24 H
Location: North sea This ship is listed as damaged, salvaged September 1944.
Cause: Brought down in the North sea by a jammed stray machine gun from another ship while on a training mission.
6 crew killed in the line of duty; 4 Returned to Duty.
Others of the Crew of 42-50580 lost on this date:
1st/Lt. William V. Prewitte Pilot
2nd/Lt. William H. Hall Co Pilot
1st/Lt. Edward C. Grooms Navigator
1st/Lt. George R. Godshalk Jr. Bombardier
S/Sgt. Oliver E Meredith Jr. Engineer
He has no known grave and the Official Point of Commemoration is the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridge, England.
Inscription
A cenotaph stone in his memory is erected near the graves of his parents in the Prince family lot at the Mayflower Cemetery in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Gravesite Details
Malcolm had two sisters who were living at the time this memorial was created
Family Members
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