Charles R Herbison
Military
Object Number - UPL 40060 - Charles R Herbison
Crashed at Merseburg on 11/8/44 in B-17 'Tag-a-Long' #42-31663, Prisoner of War (POW).
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2064522
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-711617
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-776525
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12207220 / O-827633
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot / Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16145385
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tag-a-long
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Flak Rabbit
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Screwball Express
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Stormy Weather (Ten-Tenths)
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 447th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Take Me Home
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 7a, Moosburg
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 13D, Oflag 73
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Winner, South Dakota, USA | 7 February 1925 | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 9 November 1944 - 29 April 1945 | Captured: Nov. 9, 1944 Nov. 14, 1944 Dulag-Luft (interrogation/transfer camp) Prisoner #4613/4 Nov. 19, 1944 Stalag Luft IV Gross-Tychow (formerly Heydekrug) Pomerania, Prussia (dates unclear): Stalag Luft III Zagan/Sagan To: Stalag XIII-D Nuremberg To: Stalag VII-A - Moosberg April 29, 1945 LIBERATED from Stalag VII-A |
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Enlisted |
Revisions
Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Aircraft: 43-38745 Crew Member listing for Mission 229 Flown on 11/1/1944
http://www.8thairforce.com/379th/search/crew_member_listing_for_mission…
Charles R. Herbison - German Personell Card (Kriegsgefangenkartei)
Charles R. Herbison - Discharge papers
Charles Herbison: Discharge Papers; Anecdotal
NARA - Record Group 389; World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=466&mtch=1&cat=WR26&t…
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10354 / MACR 10354; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 329 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
