Pvt. John T. ‘Tommy’ Mackall is the first paratrooper to be killed in combat in North Africa. Mackall was mortally wounded because of the French Dewoitine fighter planes’ fires and died in a hospital 4 days later.
Pvt. John T. ‘Tommy’ Mackall is the first paratrooper to be killed in combat in North Africa. Mackall was mortally wounded because of the French Dewoitine fighter planes’ fires and died in a hospital 4 days later.
