Charles A Bein

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-30984.jpeg UPL 30984 Captain William D. Roberts - 388th BG Dentist
SGT Charles A. Bein - Waist Gunner on the Eccleston Crew - 561st BS 388th Bomb Group collection

Object Number - UPL 30984 - Captain William D. Roberts - 388th BG Dentist SGT Charles A. Bein - Waist Gunner on the Eccleston Crew - 561st BS

Shot down 20 December 1943 in B-17 #42-31084, Killed in Action (KIA).



AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster

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Born

Davenport, Iowa, USA 17 October 1918

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388th BG Combat Tour

Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK 15 August 1943 - 20 December 1943 2 missions with Adelbert Porter 1 mission with Lewis Miller 19 missions with Ken Eccleston

Buried

Tablets of The Missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial • Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire,

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Killed in Action (KIA)

Bremen-Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 20 December 1943 Flak at the Target area was very intense and every plane suffered battle damage. Lt. Eccleston, in a/c 42-31084, was lost due to this flak; and, when last seen at 1212 hours, he was going down with his bomb bay doors open and on fire.

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Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.

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ABMC; MACR 3154 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3154 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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