Charles H Booth Jr

Military

30 combat missions. WIA 8 March 1944. Silent Heroes Among Us describes his 3/8/44 mission to Berlin in which he was wounded and B-24 flights to North Africa.



DFC/ DSC/ AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH/ EAME w/ 4 battle stars

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Events

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Born

New Kensington, Pennsylvania 23 November 1919

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, Silent Heroes Among Us, ISBN 1-884687-07-05 & SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Company, D790.A2S45, 1998, page 212