Carl Abele
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down in B-17 42-29867 on Mission #115, 14 October 1943. Missing Air Crew Report #838. POW
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Military
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW).
Missing Air crew Report #838
POW
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down in B-17 42-29867 on Mission #115, 14 October 1943. Missing Air Crew Report #838. POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew Report #838.
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | MOS 748 Engineer/Top Turret Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air crew Report #838.
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew Report #838.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew Report #838.
POW
Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner, Radio Operator/Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 544th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #88 dated 3 September 1943, Walter Gordon Williams Crew. Ten combat missions.
Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew Report #838
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW). Missing Air Crew Report #848.
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (EVD). Missing Air crew Report #838.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 14 October 1943 in B-17 #42-29867. Prisoner of War (POW).
Missing Air Crew Report #838.
POW
Group
The 384th Bomb Group flew B-17s from Grafton Underwood, Northamptonshire, between May 1943 and June 1945. They were engaged in daylight bombing missions over Germany as part of the Allies' efforts to destroy the effectiveness of the Luftwaffe by...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 28/2/43; Casper 13/3/43; Metropolitan 13/4/43; Dow Fd 30/4/43; Assigned 364BS/305BG [WF-A] Chelveston 12/7/43; transferred 535BS/381BG [MS-T] Ridgewell 22/8/43 LUCIFER II; {4+m} 544BS/384BG [SU-C] Grafton Underwood 4/10/43; Missing in...
14 October 1943
This was the 2nd mission flown against the ball bearing industry at Schweinfurt, Germany and was as equally disastrous as that flown on 17-Aug-43. It came to be known as "Black Thursday". While fighter escort was dispatched, bad weather and lack of...
Military site : airfield
Grafton Underwood was built in 1941 by George Wimpey and Co. Ltd. It was the first airfield in England to receive an Eighth Air Force flying unit, when in May 1942 personnel of the 15th Bomb Squadron took up residence. As a satellite airfield for...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Mount Vernon, New York, USA | 3 February 1920 |
Assigned | 3 September 1943 | |
Assigned to the 384th BG 544th BS on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #88 dated 3 September 1943, Walter Gordon Williams Crew. Four combat mission. |
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Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 14 October 1943 – May 1945 |
POW Camp: Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15 |
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Enlisted | New York, NY, USA | 29 June 1946 |
Residence: Westchester County, New York Second Enlistment |
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Died | 6 January 1989 | |
Burial: |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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18 July 2015 23:16:44 | bombercommand | Changes to middlename, service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, place associations, mission associations and media associations |
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http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/person.php?PersonKey=1690 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=126296643 http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=WR26&tf=... |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:20:12 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 838 / MACR 838, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=h... / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |