Charles W Dunlap | American Air Museum

Charles W Dunlap Jr

Military

Hit by flak just after bombs away on a mission to Wizernes, France on 26 Mar 1944, B-17G 42-31929 'Tennessee Hillbilly'. Crashed at Lederzeelle, North of St Omer after the crew baled out.

Prisoner of War

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Units served with

303rd Bomb Group

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

427th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-31929

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Airmen and ground crew of the 448th Bomb Group carefully transfer a flak casualty through the waist gun window of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-11-2-448)(26-3-44)(Flak Casualty).' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Patterson.'

8th Air Force 280

Date: 26 March 1944

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Lederzeele, France	26 March 1944	SEe more at : http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/128.pdf

Event

Location

Date

Description

Born

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Lederzeele, France

26 March 1944

SEe more at : http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/128.pdf

Revisions

Date8 Apr 2015 16:02:04

Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter

Changes

Sources

Merged information from duplicate entry to include details drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3475, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces

Additional details from http://www.303rdbg.com

Date27 Sep 2014 18:06:05

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

MACR 3475 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database