Carl Richard Hurlbutt
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 546th Bomb Squadron and placed on Detached Service to 359 Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Aschaffenburg; crashed near Rottweil in B-17 42-97058 'Scorchy II' Killed in Action (KIA) 21-Jan-45 MACR 11760
Awards: AM, PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Headquarters
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-826029
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Scorchy II
- Unit: 1st Air Division 41st Combat Bomb Wing 303rd Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 21 January 1945
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Lorraine American Cemetery, St Avold, France
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, IL | 25 November 1919 | Son of Glenn Dee and Maria Anna [Jansen] Hurlbutt. |
Enlisted |
Chicago, Il | 13 December 1941 | |
Based |
Polebrook | 22 September 1944 - 7 October 1944 | Assigned to Headquarters Detachment, 384th Bomb Group, (Detached Service at 351st Bomb Group) on 22 September 1944 per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #188 and #199. |
Based |
Molesworth | 7 October 1944 - 21 January 1945 | On Detached Service from 546BS, 384BG to 359BS, 303BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other Assigned |
Station 106, Grafton Underwood | 7 October 1944 - 21 January 1945 | Transferred to the 546th Bomb Squadron (Detached Service at 303rd Bomb Group) on 7 October 1944 per 546th Bomb Squadron Morning Report dated 14 October 1944. |
Other Promoted |
1 January 1945 | Promoted to Staff Sergeant (546 Bomb Squadron) per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #1 dated 1 January 1945. | |
Died |
Rottweil, Germany | 21 January 1945 | Failed to Return (FTR) Aschaffenburg; crashed near Rottweil in B-17 42-97058 'Scorchy II' Killed in Action (KIA) 21-Jan-45 MACR 11760 |
Chicago, Illinois | Husband of Nancy A Hurlbutt. | ||
Buried |
Re-Interred Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Plot G Row 10 Grave 30 |
Revisions
https://www.fold3.com/image/46705309
https://www.fold3.com/image/46705338
https://www.fold3.com/record/84362110-carl-r-hurlbutt
https://www.fold3.com/record/529891387-carl-r-hurlbutt
http://www.303rdbg.com/rost-hij.html#H
http://www.303rdbg.com/359tasker.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56656534/carl-richard-hurlbutt
Information from duplicate AAM record https://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/22131 consolidated with this record on 23 August 2020.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56656534/carl-richard-hurlbutt
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56656534/carl-richard-hurlbutt
Information from AAM file https://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/22132 consolidated in this file.
Information from AAM file https://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/22131 consolidated in this file.
https://www.fold3.com/image/46705309
https://www.fold3.com/image/46705338
https://www.fold3.com/record/84362110-carl-r-hurlbutt
https://www.fold3.com/record/529891387-carl-r-hurlbutt
http://www.303rdbg.com/rost-hij.html#H
http://www.303rdbg.com/359tasker.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56656534/carl-richard-hurlbutt
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 11760