Alfred Edward Carr Jr
Military
Object Number - UPL 30418 - 38th Pilot Group
Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) fighter sweep Nurnberg in P-51D 44-14068 'Little Joe'. Hit by flak crashed near Heilbronn. 20-Feb-45. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12558.
Awards: PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: The Worry Bird
- Unit: 55th Fighter Group 38th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bures / RAF Wormingford / RFC Wormingford / USAAF Station 159 / Wormingford Landing Ground
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Louisiana, USA | 8 August 1917 | |
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Enlisted |
New Orleans, LA, USA | 14 May 1942 | |
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Based |
Wormingford | 29 September 1944 - 20 February 1945 | Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
61440 Oberursel, Germany | 20 February 1945 | Prisoner of War (POW). Dulag Luft West. |
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Other Shot down |
Heilbronn, Germany | 20 February 1945 | Failed to Return (FTR) mission in P-51D 44-14068 'Little Joe'. Hit by flak crashed near Heilbronn. 20-Feb-45. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 12558. |
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Died |
Slidell, LA, USA | 10 January 1994 | |
| St Tammany Parish, LA, USA | |||
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Buried |
Slidell, LA, USA | Greenwood Cemetery Slidell St. Tammany Parish Louisiana, USA |
