Charles A Seth

Military
media-22481.jpeg UPL 22481 1LT Charles A. Seth
Navigator
Crew #609 - Leo Mower Crew

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Object Number - UPL 22481 - 1LT Charles A. Seth Navigator Crew #609 - Leo Mower Crew

Damaged by flak and fighters and landed in Sweden on 6/21/44 in B-24 Lovely Lady's Avngr #4440093 INT

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Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'

466th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Leo LaDean Mower

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-52569

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Lovely Lady
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron
The wreckage of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 44-40093) nicknamed "Lovely Ladies Avenger" of the 466th Bomb Group that has crashed in Malmo, Sweden. 21 June 1944. Image via E Olov Sundgren. Handwritten caption on reverse: '466th BG place unknown.'

44-40093

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Lovely Lady's Avenger
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 786th Bomb Squadron

Missions

428

  • Date: 21 June 1944
  • Official Description:

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Attlebridge

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Watseka, Illinois, USA 13 July 1922

Enlisted

Chicago, IL, USA 3 November 1942

Died

Peoria, IL, USA 22 October 2013 Charles A. Seth Sr., was the son of Earl and Della Lanham Seth. He married LuWana M. Dugas on September 7, 1947 in Gilman, Illinois. She passed away Jan. 13, 2007. He was also preceded in death by his parents, one brother, Guy Seth, one grandson and one son-in-law, Roger L. Hobbie. He was a freight agent for Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad in East Peoria for 43 years. He served his country in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a 1st Lieutenant. He was a B-24 navigator in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater. He flew 23 missions before crash landing in Sweden on June 21, 1944. Full obituary: The Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL- October 26, 2013

Buried

Hopedale, IL 61747, USA 25 October 2013 Hopedale Mennonite Cemetery Hopedale Tazewell County Illinois, USA GPS (lat/lon): 40.4236, -89.43455

Other

Crash Landed/Interned (INT)

Bulltofta, Kirseberg, Malmö, Sweden 21 June 1944
Iroquois County, IL, USA

Revisions

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 6164 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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