Arthur Lee Crandall
MilitaryCrew 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.
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
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- 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
- 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
- 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: Airfield
- 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
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Change to aircraft association according to ‘Losses of the US 8th & 9th Air Forces’, Bishop and Hey
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