Servando B Carrillo
Military
Object Number - UPL 61208 - Servando B. Carrillo
Army Air Corps
Entered Service in December 1942
Radio OperatorfGunner on B-17 and B-24 "Libra"
834 Bomb Squadron, 486"" Bomb Group
European Theater, 8" Air Force
China-Burma-India Theater, 10" Air Force
Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 4 OLC
Graduating from Superior High School in the Class of 1942, Servando spent most of 1943 leaming the skills of a radio operator/gunner. He trained at Scott Field in Illinois in the basics of radio operation and later at Davis-Monthan in Arizona on B-17 and B-24 bombers. Sent overseas to England, the nineteen-year-old sergeant began flying combat missions to strategic targets in Germany. "Every mission was unique unto itself," he states. (Villarreal R.C., 2002)
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Libra
- Unit: 486th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 833rd Bomb Squadron 834th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Acton
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Enlisted |
Superior, AZ, USA | 21 December 1942 | |
|
Born |
Superior Arizona, USA |
Revisions
42-52508. American Air Museum. (n.d.). https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/aircraft/42-52508
Villarreal, R. C. (2002). In Arizona’s Hispanic flyboys 1941-1945 (pp. 33–33). essay, Writers Club Press.
Villarreal, R. C. (2002). In Arizona’s Hispanic flyboys 1941-1945 (pp. 33–33). essay, Writers Club Press.
Villarreal, R. C. (2002). In Arizona’s Hispanic flyboys 1941-1945 (pp. 33–33). essay, Writers Club Press.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
