Donn was the son William L. and Gertrude (Kelsey) Mall.
Major Mall was serving in the Fourteeth Infantry and was in the Burma Jungle patroling on 9 June 1944. He was leading a patrol of seven men through dangerous territory when they received fire from the front. He and the soldiers were crawling to a bush line to observe and they were fired upon by a Japanese machine gun. Major Mall and the seven men with him perished.
He was posthomously awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Medal.
He was assigned to Fort Davis, Panama Canal prior to his transfer to the South East Asian Command in New Delhi, India in 1943.
Source for the above: "Fallen Sons & Daughters of
South Dakota in World War II".
Military Information: MAJ, US ARMY
Major Mall was serving in the Fourteeth Infantry and was in the Burma Jungle patroling on 9 June 1944. He was leading a patrol of seven men through dangerous territory when they received fire from the front. He and the soldiers were crawling to a bush line to observe and they were fired upon by a Japanese machine gun. Major Mall and the seven men with him perished.
He was posthomously awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Medal.
He was assigned to Fort Davis, Panama Canal prior to his transfer to the South East Asian Command in New Delhi, India in 1943.
Source for the above: "Fallen Sons & Daughters of
South Dakota in World War II".
Military Information: MAJ, US ARMY
Donn was the son William L. and Gertrude (Kelsey) Mall.
Major Mall was serving in the Fourteeth Infantry and was in the Burma Jungle patroling on 9 June 1944. He was leading a patrol of seven men through dangerous territory when they received fire from the front. He and the soldiers were crawling to a bush line to observe and they were fired upon by a Japanese machine gun. Major Mall and the seven men with him perished.
He was posthomously awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Medal.
He was assigned to Fort Davis, Panama Canal prior to his transfer to the South East Asian Command in New Delhi, India in 1943.
Source for the above: "Fallen Sons & Daughters of
South Dakota in World War II".
Military Information: MAJ, US ARMY
Major Mall was serving in the Fourteeth Infantry and was in the Burma Jungle patroling on 9 June 1944. He was leading a patrol of seven men through dangerous territory when they received fire from the front. He and the soldiers were crawling to a bush line to observe and they were fired upon by a Japanese machine gun. Major Mall and the seven men with him perished.
He was posthomously awarded a Purple Heart and a Silver Medal.
He was assigned to Fort Davis, Panama Canal prior to his transfer to the South East Asian Command in New Delhi, India in 1943.
Source for the above: "Fallen Sons & Daughters of
South Dakota in World War II".
Military Information: MAJ, US ARMY
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