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Carl John Gjelhaug
Arthur J Evans and Carl J G Jelhaug, co-pilot and pilot of the 446th Bomb Group near Flixton Hall. A veteran has handwritten on the reverse: 'Winter 44/45 probably Feb 45. Carl J G Jelhaug, right- 1st pilot age 20, Arthur J Evans, left- Co Pilot Age 21. Taken outside the office crew barracks 446 BG, adjacent to Flixton Hall (in woods), 707 BS Flixton Estate.'
Goin' My Way Carl John Gjelhaug. pilot 1944-1945 Bungay, England
Tombstone of Carl John Gjelhaug in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California.
Selective Service Registration card of Carl John Gjelhaug
Carl John Gjelhaug circa 1953.
Carl Gjelhaug served as a pilot with the 707th Bomb Squadron of the 446th Bomb Group, flying missions out of Bungay, England. He arrived in England November 1944
right out of training and departed July 1945. He left the Army Air Corp after the war, got his BA at Georgetown University, Washington DC and came back in the Air Force in time for the Korean War. He retired in 1978 from March AFB in Riverside, California, after having served primarily in 8th Air Force.
Group
The 446th Bomb Group, who came to be known as "the Bungay Buckaroos" after the name of their Suffolk base, flew B-24 Liberators on strategic, support and interdictory missions over Europe. The Group led the Eighth Air Force and 2nd Bomb Division on the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
Military site : airfield
From late November 1943, the three bases of Bungay, Seething and Hardwick were the stations of the 20th Combat Wing of the Eighth Air Force. The base had previously housed individual squadrons of the 310th Bomb Group (Twelfth Air Force) and of the 93rd...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Washington, DC, USA | 3 February 1924 |
| Enlisted | Miami Beach, FL, USA | 4 February 1943 |
| Died | Riverside, CA, USA | 4 February 2008 |
| Buried | Riverside, CA, USA | |
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Riverside National |
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| 24 March 2018 18:16:26 | Sandra | Changes to biography |
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Family history, Sandra Gjelhaug Byrnes. |
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| 24 March 2018 10:30:56 | Sandra | Changes to media associations |
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family collection |
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| 18 April 2017 08:48:11 | Lucy May | Changes to biography, unit associations and place associations |
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Added connections from info in caption of image FRE 1745: |
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| 03 November 2015 12:52:35 | Sandra | Changes to events |
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Death certificate. |
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| 06 February 2015 18:03:14 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to events |
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Lee Cunningham 6-Feb-2015. Deleted duplicate blank enlistment events. |
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| 06 February 2015 17:04:00 | Sandra | Changes to nickname and service number |
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Military records |
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| 25 January 2015 15:24:43 | Sandra | Changes to events |
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Death Certificate and tombstone |
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| 25 January 2015 15:22:39 | Sandra | Changes to events |
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Enlistment record |
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| 25 January 2015 15:19:42 | Sandra | Changes to events |
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Birth Certificate |
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| 25 January 2015 15:15:50 | Sandra | Changes to awards and events |
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Birth and Death Certificates |
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| 25 January 2015 13:12:03 | Sandra | Changes to middlename, nickname, highest rank, role and awards |
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DD 214 |
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| 27 September 2014 18:05:07 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Page 276 in the book SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Co, 1998 edition |
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