Charles E May III

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-14143.jpeg UPL 14143 The Totten Crew: Standing: Charles May, Charles Nystrom, Don Neville, Thomas Seale, Don Orgain, Joe Galterio
Sitting: David Totten, Walter Stynetski , Lewis Anderson, Mike Lavonsky

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Object Number - UPL 14143 - The Totten Crew: Standing: Charles May, Charles Nystrom, Don Neville, Thomas Seale, Don Orgain, Joe Galterio Sitting: David Totten, Walter Stynetski...

Killed in Action (KIA). Plane crashed on takeoff. B-24 #4295120 'Hookem Cow'

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Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Hookem Cow/Betty/Stinky
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron

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Died

14 April 1945 Killed in Hainford, Norfolk, when the B24 "Hookem Cow" crashed shortly after takeoff.

Born

Hudson, New Jersey

Buried

Plot E Row 2 Grave 72

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Find A Grave Memorial# 56292176

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458th BG website & Page 279 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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