Arthur Lee Crandall

Military
media-48090.jpeg UPL 48090 Lord Trenchard inspects crew of Consolidated B-24 Liberator, ‘Ball of Fire Junior’, at a US bomber station in England.

Crew members L-R: Capt Joseph S Tate (P), St Augustine, FL; 2Lt Thomas B Roll (CP), Milwaukee, WI; 2Lt Thaddeus R Hawkins Jr (N), Griffin, GA; 2Lt Orval D Huff (B), Waterman, IL; T/Sgt Aaron F Moses (E), Monroe, LA; T/Sgt Harold Secor (R), Savannah,GA; S/Sgt Cleiborn U Booker (LW), Augusta, GA; S/Sgt James T South (RW), Lavoina, GA; S/Sgt Edward W Eichmann (BT), Milwaukee, WI; S/Sgt Arthur L Crandall (TG), Campellsburg, IN. All from 93BG Hardwick, Norfolk, England, April 1943.

Object Number - UPL 48090 - Lord Trenchard inspects crew of Consolidated B-24 Liberator, ‘Ball of Fire Junior’, at a US bomber station in England. Crew members L-R: Capt...

Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down 16-Apr-43 in B-24 41-23983. Some crew members had baled out when the plane exploded blowing some crew clear. Prisoner of War (POW) in Stalag XVIIb.



Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-434473
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph S Tate Jr, Sergeant Edward J Rubin and Technical Sergeant Gottrell H Wright of the 93rd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-40128) nicknamed "Ball of Fire the III".

Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for publication 4 Nov 1943' [stamp]. '283892' [Censor no].

Printed caption on reverse: 'COMBAT PERSONNEL OF THE "TRAVELLING CIRCUS"
L to R: Lt. Col. Joseph S. Tate, Jr of St. Augustine Fla.  Squadron Commander, has completed 32 missions, incl. Rome and Ploest
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron 409th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-024034
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot / pilot

Aircraft

A B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-23667) nicknamed "Ball of Fire (Barber Bob)" of the 93rd Bomb Group used as a flight assembly ship.
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Ball of Fire Barber Bob
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Ball of Fire Junior
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 329th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Marengo, IN 17 May 1920 Son of Chester Joseph and Anna May [Trinkle] Crandall.

Enlisted

Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana 9 December 1941 Fort Benjamin, Harrison, Indiana

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Krems an der Donau, Austria 16 April 1943 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb.

Other

Baled out POW

16 April 1943 Shot down 16-Apr-43 in B-24 41-23983; baled out POW

Other

Discharged USAAF

22 September 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Orleans, IN 6 September 1986

Buried

Mitchell City Cemetery Mitchell, Lawrence County, IN 10 September 1986 Mitchell City Cemetery Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana

Based

Hardwick 16 April 1943 Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

Date
Changes
Sources

Change to aircraft association according to ‘Losses of the US 8th & 9th Air Forces’, Bishop and Hey

Date
ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, MACR 15730, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 104, NARA

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