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Assigned to 18TCS, 64TCG, USAAF. Co-pilot aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 64th Troop Carrier Group
1st Lieutenant Charles E Williams was born 30-Oct-19. His next of kin were his parents, David and Gertrude Williams. He was from Clinton, Minnesota.
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Group
The Group trained with the Eighth Air Force flying from Ramsbury, Wiltshire. The Group was reassigned to the Twelfth Air Force on 14 September 1942. Its first mission was dropping paratroops into French North-West Africa, at Maison Blanche, Algeria on...
Squadron
C-47 Skytrain
Assigned to 18TCS, 64TCG, 8AF USAAF. Departed Bradley AAF, CT for the ETO. Routing through Presque Isle, Goose Bay Labrador, Bluie West 1 (Narsarsuaq Greenland) [3 week delay], thence to Prestwick via Iceland. Failed to Return (FTR) flight from...
Military site : airfield
Opened as civil Prestwick Airport with a grass airfield in 1936, it was also an RAF training, fighter and Coastal Command base during 1936 to 1941. Scottish Aviation established an assembly and maintenance facility there in 1938, developed during the...
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| Born | Kansas City, MO, USA | 8 June 1916 |
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Son of Jake Penner. |
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| Lived in | Jackson County, MO, USA | 1940 |
| Enlisted | Houston, TX, USA | 21 November 1941 |
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Houston, Texas |
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| Based | Prestwick | 1942 – 23 August 1942 |
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Assigned to 18TCS, 64TCG, USAAF. |
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| Died | Coed Moel-Y-Gaer, Denbigh LL16, UK | 23 August 1942 |
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Co-pilot aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB). |
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| Buried | Cambridge American Cemetery | 25 August 1942 |
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Interred |
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| Buried | Sheffield Cemetery Kansas City, Jackson County, MO | 1948 |
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Sheffield Cemetery |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 20 December 2021 09:52:28 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography and events |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183598432/morris-b-penner |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 07 June 2021 11:11:15 | Emily | Changes to unit associations |
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Removed association to 8th Air Force. Unit did not exist under this designation until February 1944 62nd Troop Carrier Group was a part of VIII Ground Air Support Command |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 13 August 2018 19:24:16 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/317769400 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:20:21 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th and 9th AF by Bishop and Hey p. 27 |
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