Carl B Christensen
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Rear L-R: 2Lt Edmund H Lutz, 2Lt,Frank A Banell, Unkn, Unkn, Unkn, 2Lt Andrew B Creo.
Front L-R: Unkn, Unkn, Unkn, Unkn.
Crew for 24-Mar-44 in B-17 42-30720 were 2Lt Andrew B Creo (P), 2Lt Edmund H Lutz (CP), 2Lt Frank A Banell (N), S/Sgt Carl B Christensen (Tog), Sgt's William M Martin (TT), Howard C Damon (RO), Elmer L Koelling (BT), Billy J Hancock (RW), Russell Boyd (LW), Lawrence E Becker (TG).
Object Number - UPL 40013 - "A crew of the 379th Bomb Group poses beside a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Fatso" at an 8th Air Force base in England, 24 March 1944." Rear...
Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions.
Failed to Return (FTR) in #42-31083; A/C exploded mid-air near Downham Market, England. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM, PH.
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- Date: 8 February 1944
- Date: 14 January 1944
- Date: 5 January 1944
- Date: 4 January 1944
- Date: 24 December 1943
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Milwaukee, Wisconsin | 14 June 1922 | |
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Enlisted |
Milwaukee, WI, USA | 21 October 1942 | Entered service from Portage County, WI |
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Died |
Barroway Drove, Downham Market PE38 0AJ, UK | 11 April 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) in #42-31083; A/C exploded mid-air near Downham Market, England. Killed in Action (KIA) |
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Buried |
12 April 1944 | Interred Cambridge American Cemetery | |
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Based |
Kimbolton | 11 April 1944 | Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Buried |
Spiritland cemetery, Almond, WI | Re-Interred Spiritland Cemetery Almond, Portage County, WI |
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Sources
Combat Chronology; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 302 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia