Hubert B Carpenter

Military

Shot down 16-Aug-44 in B-17G 42-39996 'Boston Bombshell' while serving as Navigator. Aircraft was attacked by fighters and crashed near Marzhausen/Hebenshausen, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW).

POW

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Units served with

324th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

91st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-39996

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Boston Bombshell
Unit: 91st Bomb Group 322nd Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Aerial photograph of Bassingbourn airfield looking east, Whaddon is at the top, the bomb dump is to the left of the main runway, which runs vertically; the control tower and technical site with four C-Type hangars is on the right, 23 August 1945. Photograph taken by No. 542 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/692. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Other Prisoner of War (POW)	Moosburg, Germany	16 August 1944 - 25 February 1946	Held at Stalag 7A, Moosburg, Bavaria. Officially returned to Military Control (RMC) 25-Feb-46. Late RMC date may indicate that he was in hospital when the war ended.
Born	Pittsburg, Texas

Event

Location

Date

Description

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Moosburg, Germany

16 August 1944 - 25 February 1946

Held at Stalag 7A, Moosburg, Bavaria. Officially returned to Military Control (RMC) 25-Feb-46. Late RMC date may indicate that he was in hospital when the war ended.

Born

Pittsburg, Texas

Revisions

Date14 Jan 2015 15:01:27

Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter

Changes

Sources

Combined two entries into a single entry. This record now includes information from the following source: MACR 8179 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database.

Correction of some typographical errors.

Date17 Dec 2014 18:43:27

ContributorLee8thbuff

Changes

Sources

Lee Cunningham 17-Dec-2014. Added SN and BS association per MACR 8179. Added POW event per National Archives REcords Administration (NARA) POW database; Crafted biography per "Losses of the 9th & 9th Air Forces" Satn Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; BS association of this crew member based on MACR 8179 while BS association of aircraft is based on Roger A. Freeman, David Osborne and Bishop & Hey. COMBINATION of data from duplicate, Birth data accepted as correct from original source data ingest (see below).

Date27 Sep 2014 18:13:21

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8179