Charles David Rutledge | American Air Museum in Britain

Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 32 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Killed in Action (KIA). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364.

Noted in MACR to be still at controls when A/C exploded.

Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH.

Service

People

David Anderson

Military | Major | Bombardier | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 18 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Kyle Brown

Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 30 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Arthur Green

Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 28 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Thomas Martin

Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 30 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. Awards: AM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Stanley Paine

Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 32 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodelebau. Killed in Action (KIA). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. ...
Ellis Pierson

Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Gunner, Radio Operator | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 29 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederndodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW) 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. ...
Doyle Poling

Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 31 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederndodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW) 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. ...
Clifford Rondou

Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 379th Bomb Group
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 26 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' A/C Crashed at Niederdodeleben. Prisoner of War (POW). 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364. ...

Units served with

8th Air Force

Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ...
379th Bomb Group

Group
The 379th Bomb Group (H) (heavy), based at Kimbolton, flew more sorties than any other Bomb Group in the Eighth Air Force and dropped a greater bomb tonnage than any other Group. The B-17 Flying Fortress Group was awarded two Distinguished Unit...
524th Bomb Squadron

Squadron

Aircraft

42-97890 'Queen of Hearts' "L'il Satan"

B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 27/3/44; Kearney 22/5/44; Grenier 29/5/44; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-U] Kimbolton 12/6/44 LIL SATAN; returning from Toulouse flak hit blew off nose 25/6/44 with Karl Becker; Navigator: Bob Evans, Bombardier: Arthur Maataa (2 Killed in...

Missions

652

28 September 1944

Associated Place

Kimbolton

Military site : airfield
Planned for RAF use, Kimbolton airfield was built by W and C French Ltd. in 1941. The airfield was increased in size to accommodate a full US heavy Bomb Group, and the first such unit to us it was the 91st Bomb Group, who arrived in September 1942....
Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial

Cemetery

Events

Event	Location	Date
Born	Grover Hill, Ohio, USA	1922
Son of Roy Waggoner and Bessie T [Graham] Rutledge.
Enlisted	Wheeling, WV	2 February 1943
Wheeling, West Virginia
Based	Kimbolton	1944 – 28 September 1944
Assigned to 524BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF.
Died	Niederdodeleben, Germany	28 September 1944
Failed to Return (FTR) Madgeburg mission in B-17G 42-97890 'Queen of Spades' Crashed at Niederdodeleben. KIA 28-Sep-44. MACR 9364.
Buried	Niederdodeleben, Germany	2 October 1944
Interred Niederdodeleben cemetery Germany
Buried		1946
Re-Interred Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Plot D Row 31 Grave 35
Buried	Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Carrollton, OH	1948
Memorialised Mount Pleasant Cemetery Carrollton, Carroll County, OH

Date	Contributor	Update
26 June 2019 13:08:13	Al_Skiff	Changes to biography and events
Sources
https://www.fold3.com/image/28679030 https://www.fold3.com/image/310762452?rec=299318463 https://www.fold3.com/record/84222352-charles-d-rutledge https://www.fold3.com/record/529896444-charles-d-rutledge https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56660332/charles-d-rutledge https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134745407/charles-david-rutledge
Date	Contributor	Update
25 June 2019 16:19:49	Al_Skiff	Changes to middlename, nickname, service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and mission associations
Sources
https://www.fold3.com/image/28679030 https://www.fold3.com/image/310762452?rec=299318463 https://www.fold3.com/record/84222352-charles-d-rutledge https://www.fold3.com/record/529896444-charles-d-rutledge https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56660332/charles-d-rutledge https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134745407/charles-david-rutledge
Date	Contributor	Update
27 September 2014 18:05:32	AAM	AAM ingest
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 9364 / MACR 9364; 379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 325 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database