Charles M Kerr

Military
Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat.  Silver wings and medal ribbons are pinned above left-side jacket lapel.  There is a WWII-era Air Force round enlisted man’s badge pinned in the center of the hat, an Army Air Force patch, and sergeant's stripes on the sleeve. Subject is not looking directly in lens and is smiling UPL 60901 UPL 60901 Charles M. Kerr, T SGT, 749th BS, 457th BG

Object Number - UPL 60901 - Charles M. Kerr, T SGT, 749th BS, 457th BG

Shot down 9 April 1944 in B-17 #4231629. Prisoner of War (POW).



POW

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 457th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Moiese, Montana, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 9 April 1944

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Flak Dodger by Roland Byers; MACR 3664 / MACR 3664 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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