Charles Wallace Tribken
Military
Object Number - UPL 18016 - L-R 1st Lt Charles W 'Wally' Tribken and 1st Lt Edward T Miluck. 1st US pilots to return from North Africa want to get back into the big show rather...
Erasmus High School graduated 1936
Colgate University
Joined RAFVR
Floyd Bennett Field pilot training
Pensacola Naval Flight School pilot training
shipped overseas to ETO
Operational training at OTU
Assigned to 71S Jan 41
17-8-41 flew 71's 1st combat missions in Spitfire Mk IIa's
10-41 mention in dispatches Low level dive bombing mission against railway Jct France.
Volunteered for Far East
As far as Durban Sth Africa
diverted to El Alamein
? Sqn RAF
early Jan 43 Xfer to USAAF as Lt
Stateside pilot instructor 8-2-43
volunteered to return ETO early 44 as F/O 506FS, 404FG
Promoted Capt
Killed in road accident, staff car went over cliff Toule France 44? 22-11-44 DNB.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Type Category: Fighter
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
29 July 1918 | ||
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Buried |
Long Island National Cemetery, 2040 Wellwood Ave, Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA | 9 September 1948 | National Cemetery Pinelawn, 9-9-48. |
| Kings County, NY, USA |
Revisions
Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper 8-9-1948
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tribken&GSbyrel=a…;
EAGLES of the RAF - The World War II Eagle Squadrons by Phillip D Caine.
Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper 8-9-1948
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Tribken&GSbyrel=a…;
EAGLES of the RAF - The World War II Eagle Squadrons by Phillip D Caine.
