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![Colonel Charles B Westover of the 448th Bomb Group. The image has been signed: 'To Pat, with best regards.[illegible]' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Charles B Westover, CO 448 14/11/44-27/5/45 to USA for B-29 training.'](https://www.americanairmuseum.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/freeman/media-380604.jpg?itok=Dy1AgP4-)
Colonel Charles B Westover of the 448th Bomb Group. The image has been signed: 'To Pat, with best regards.[illegible]' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Charles B Westover, CO 448 14/11/44-27/5/45 to USA for B-29 training.'
Bryson's crew with Col. Westover (far right). Picture taken before leading entire 8th on mission #24.
Col Charles B. Westover :- BSM award card. 448BG.
Col Charles B. Westover :- Distinguished Flying Cross award card. 448BG.
Lt Gen Charles B Westover
Commanding Officer of the 448th Bomb Group based at Seething from November 1944 to May 1945.
Awards: DSM, LOM (2OLC), DFC (OLC), MBS, AM (4OLC), Croix de Guerre with Palm, WWII Victory, EAME (4 x Battle Stars), Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator. B24. 2nd Air Division, 448th Bomb Group, 714 Bomb Squadron, 29 complete missions | 446th Bomb Group
After marriage in 1941, Harry enlisted for the draft, and in his own words " being patriotic or probably knowing the regular draft would get me sooner or later and I would be drafted into the regular Army, I decided I would enlist in the Army Air Corps...
Division
In December 1944, the 2nd Bomb Division was redesginated the 2nd Air Division.
Group
The 448th Bombardment Group was organized on 6 April 1943 and activated on 1 May 1943 at Gowen Field, near Boise, Idaho. The initial training of the air crews took place in Florida. The entire group was assembled Wendover Field, Utah. Both air and...
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43 as an Eighth Air Force bomber base, Seething had three concrete runways, 51 hardstandings of both loop and 'frying-pan’ types, and two T2 hangars, one on each side of the airfield. It was home to the 448th Bomb Group, equipped with...
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| Born | Fort Gibbon, Tanana, Alabama | 7 October 1915 |
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Oscar M and |
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| Commanding Officer of 448th BG | Seething, Norwich, Norfolk NR15, UK | 14 November 1944 – 27 May 1945 |
| Died | 23 July 1978 | |
| Buried | August 1978 | |
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Arlington National Cemetery |
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| 26 November 2021 13:42:16 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, awards, events and unit associations |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45761979/charles-bainbridge-westover |
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| 15 June 2018 02:55:45 | Susie | Changes to nickname and events |
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Daughter: Susanna Westover Hansen |
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| 15 September 2017 16:54:05 | Al_Skiff | Changes to media associations |
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| 07 May 2015 18:13:50 | scooter6793 | Changes to media associations |
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| 13 January 2015 16:43:44 | rossingtonj | Changes to role, biography, events and place associations |
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Seething Control Tower Museum: http://www.seethingtower.org/448-bomb-group.php (bottom of page) |
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| 27 September 2014 18:05:29 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Who's Who in the Eighth Air Force and/or Biographical Directory Command & Staff Officers Eighth Air Force 1942-45 |
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