Charles Robert Randel
Military ROLL OF HONOURCharles Randel was Right Waist Gunner on B-17 #42-3439 of 96th Bomber Group / 413th Bomber Squadron, shot down 20 October 1943. Killed in Action (KIA). Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 1018. He was a substitute on that mission for Pilot Geyer's regular Right Waist Gunner, Everett J. Missey. See the Geyer crew page at http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/5
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12155334
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31016678 and O-736630
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron 563rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14078651 and O-793406
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33273658
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32416220
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 October 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Died |
De Bilt, Holland, The Netherlands | 20 October 1943 | His remains were found in the crash |
Buried |
His remains were found in the crash and buried on 23 October 1943 in a cemetery in Apeldoorn, Holland. Exhumed and re-buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten | ||
Born |
Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States | Husband of Maurine J. (Sannum) Randel |
Revisions
ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources
Corrected last name. It is indeed Randel and not Randal.
ABMC - American Battle Monuments Commission
MACR 1018
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1018; Snetterton Falcons pg 76