Robert Carson
Military | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
25 July 1943 wounded in action
Levi Humes Carter III
Military
Assigned to 335BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions. Flew with John Johnson and Robert Carson crews. Flew 1 missions with Bill Thomas crew. ETD
Awards: DFC (OLC), AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
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John Johnson
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 335BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 14 x combat missions. Killed in Action (KIA) in B-17 42-30353 'Ten Knights in a Bar Room' on mission to Kiel, Germany 25-Jul-43 ?? -
William Thomas
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 334BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 27 x combat missions. ...
Units served with
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95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
335th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-30218 'Heavenly Daze', Dolly
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Tinker 25/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Dow Fd 6/6/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-W] Horham 15/6/43; (23m), Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Bob Beatty, Navigator: Dave Goss, Bombardier: Joe Forand, Radio... -
42-30300 'Hell N Back'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/5/43; Gore 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 25/5/43; Kearney 27/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 16/6/43; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-C] Horham 17/6/43; with E.L. Lemke force landed RAF St Eval 28/6/43; 15m, Missing in Action... -
42-30353 'Ten Knights in a Bar Room'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/43; Gr Isle 3/6/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-Z] Horham 27/6/43; 334BS [BG-C]; 38m, transferred 388BG Aphrodite Project [remote controlled flying bomb filled with Torpex explosives], Knettishall; 803BS RCM... -
42-3111 The Brass Rail, Local Girl
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 16/2/43; Gore Fd 7/3/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-T] Alconbury 5/43; THE BRASS RAIL 6 missions. ... -
42-6080 'Floozie Flossy' 'Mary Ruth the WeWa Special'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 15-Jul-43; Cheyenne 18/7/43; (Fitted with Sperry gyroscope); Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-P] Horham 3/9/43; force landed Metfield Afd with L.G. Hamby 16-Dec-43; force landed Tibenham Afd with J.D. Pearson 5-Jan-44; force landed...
Associated Place
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Horham
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Lilburn, GA | 2 October 1916 |
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Son of Dora Lee [Montgomery] Carter. |
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| Enlisted | Fort McPherson, Atlanta, GA | 3 March 1942 |
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Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Based | Horham | May 1943 – December 1943 |
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Assigned to 335BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Discharged USAAF | October 1945 | |
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Honourable discharge. |
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| Died | Fulton County, GA | 12 December 1968 |
| Buried | Luxomni Baptist Church Cemetery Luxomni, Gwinnett County, GA | 15 December 1968 |
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Luxomni Baptist Church Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 July 2021 19:34:03 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, suffix, service number, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/646491378 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:18:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php |
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