Carl H Warheit
Military ROLL OF HONOURShot down 20 December 1942 in B-17F 41-24495 'Rose O'Day' while serving as Ball Turret Gunner. Killed in Action (KIA). 17 years of age at death.
PH with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Sergeant Carl H. Warheit was born March 27, 1923. His next of kin were his mother, Julia Warheit, and his brother, Earl Warheit. He was from Loyalhanna, Pennsylvania.
On December 20, 1942, he was serving as the Right Waist Gunner aboard “Rose O’ Day,” B-17 tail #41-24495, of the 306th Bomb Group, 367th Bomb Squadron, when it went down over Creil, France.
He is buried in the US Military Cemetery at Epinal, France.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Rose O Day
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Latrobe, Pennsylvania | 27 March 1923 | Sergeant Carl H. Warheit was born March 27, 1923. His next of kin were his mother, Julia Warheit, and his brother, Earl Warheit. He was from Loyalhanna, Pennsylvania. |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Creil, France | 20 December 1942 | Killed when aircraft was attacked by German fighters. The remainder of the crew baled out of the stricken aircraft. He was dead in the aircraft when it crashed near Creil, France. On December 20, 1942, he was serving as the Right Waist Gunner aboard “Rose O’ Day,” B-17 tail #41-24495, of the 306th Bomb Group, 367th Bomb Squadron, when it went down over Creil, France. |
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Buried |
Buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Plot B, Row 16, Grave 15. |
Revisions
IDPF and/or crash report researched by Bill Beigel. IDPF donated to American Air Museum by Bill Beigel. For more information about this flyer, you may contact http://ww2research.com.
Lee Cunningham 5-Dec-2014. Added crew position to biography and KIA event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; Added Burial event and SN per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Hey and Bishop p.55. WWII Monument web site