Charles W Bryant

Military

Charles Bryant was Navigator on B-17 Serial 42-39840, hit by Flak on the 1 December 1943 mission to Solingen/Leverkusen, Germany. Aircraft flown back to base. Returned to Duty (RTD). Six members of the crew baled out over Belgium. See their individual pages at www.evasioncomete.be > Fiches.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

People

Mark Joseph Bauer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16066267
  • Highest Rank: Corporal
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret gunner

Charles W Bryant

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Joseph Luke Burns

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13116815
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer/Top Turret Gunner

James Orland Gibson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 37398663
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Charles Frank Hess

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 496th Fighter Training Group 1st Scouting Force 385th Fighter Squadron 555th Fighter Training Squadron 613th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13008053 / O-802852
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-39840

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: The Lopin Lobo
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 613th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Revisions

Date5 Jun 2021 12:41:15
ContributorED-BB
ChangesChanges to biography
Sources

Research on the crew of 42-39840 for website www.evasioncomete.be

Date5 Jun 2021 10:37:39
ContributorED-BB
ChangesChanges to role, biography, person associations, unit associations, place associations and mission associations
Sources

Research for the pages of the six crew members who bailed out of 42-39840 on 1 December 1943. See www.evasioncomete.be (Fiches)

Date27 Sep 2014 18:06:01
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=478