Walter Arthur Carney

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media-13377.jpeg UPL 13377 B17G 43-38501, code BK-C, "Sweet Chariot" 546th BS was the last 384th Bomb Group aircraft to be lost in combat, shot down on the mission to the Pilsen/Skoda factory and Pilsen airfield. Hit by flak, pilot LT Andrew Gordon Lovett performed an energency landing at Pisaruv Vesec village, district Tachov on April 25, 1945, and survived the mission with all the crew.

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Object Number - UPL 13377 - B17G 43-38501, code BK-C, "Sweet Chariot" 546th BS was the last 384th Bomb Group aircraft to be lost in combat, shot down on the mission to the...

Assigned to the 384th Bomb Group, 546th Bomb Squadron on AAF Station 106 Special Orders #254 dated 23 December 1943, George K. Spangler Crew, 34 combat missions.

Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed near Albersfeld on 25 Apr 45 in B-17 'Sweet Chariot' #43-38501, MACR 14317.

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  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11095537 / O-833765
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-818901
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
The insignia of the 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39054199
  • Highest Rank: Corporal
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-2077531
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

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Born

New Paris, PA 15554, USA 12 September 1925

Enlisted

Pittsburgh, PA, USA 20 November 1943 RESIDENCE: Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Private, Air Corps

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Prisoner of War (POW)

25 April 1945 POW Camp: Not identified in National Archives POW database. Shot down over Tachov, Austria

Died

Charlotte, NC, USA 1 March 2016

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 14317 / MACR 14317, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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