Walter Carl Parkins
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Back L-R: SSgt. Walter C. Parkins (FG), TSgt. Philip E. Schmidlapp (TT), SSgt. Floyd M. Wingate (FG), TSgt. Arthur E. Brittain (RO), SSgt. Win R. Smalley (BT)
Front L-R: 1st Lt. Gordon K. Stallings (OBS/TG), Capt. Richard T. Carrington Jr. (AC/CP), Capt. Michael H. Smithwick (B), Capt. Raymond P. Ketelsen (P), 1st Lt. Robin Everett Taber (N)
384th Bomb Group collection
The Quentin Bland Collection.
Object Number - UPL 45632 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 29 July 1943/Kiel. Back L-R: SSgt. Walter C. Parkins (FG), TSgt. Philip E. Schmidlapp (TT), SSgt. Floyd M. Wingate...
Assigned to the 545th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), per 545th Bomb Squadron January 1943. Shot down 12 August 1943 in B-17 #42-3231 'The Inferno', Missing in Action (MIA).
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37280903
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-729511
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-663429
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37369181
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 29 June 1943
- Date: 28 June 1943
- Date: 26 June 1943
- Date: 22 June 1943
Places
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Greeneville, TN | 22 October 1919 | |
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Enlisted |
Fort Jackson, SC | 22 May 1942 | |
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Other Missing in Action (MIA) |
Erfstadt, Germany | 12 August 1943 | Dropped out of formation and was attacked by several enemy fighters. Parkin was last heard from calling out the positions of the enemy fighters. Damaged by enemy aircraft, crashed [SE of] Liblar, Germany. MACR 287 |
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Other Memorial |
Margraten, The Netherland | Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands: Tablets of the Missing |
Revisions
Added a "-" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 287 / MACR 287, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database