Charles Truitt Holbrook

Military

Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF. 8-Aug-43 on TDY to 9th AF, was interned in Turkey on Ploesti raid in B24 42-40608 'The Urgin Virgin' Later suffered skull fracture in B-24 accident.



On 9-Mar-44 B-24 42-100320 crashed S of Attleborough, Norfolk on the return from a mission to Hanover/Brunswick, GR. RTD.



Awards: DFC, AM (OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

B-24 Pilot Lt. Claude Alvin Turner, Command Pilot of the B-24D, 42-40608, the Vulgar Virgin, on the Ploestii bombing mission to destroy the German held oil refineries in Romania. 1 Aug 43. the B-24, 42-40765, Birmingham Blitzkrieg, after a deadly and chaotic mission to Bremen, Germany -  11 KIA  13 Nov 43.  MACR  2180
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-665742
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron
Some of the crew of the Vulgar Virgin
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: - The Vulgar Virgin
  • Unit: 93rd Bomb Group 328th Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Dry Ridge, Owen County, KY 27 February 1921 Son of Emmett Truitt and Margaret Corene [Thomas] Holbrook.

Enlisted

Fort Thomas, Newport, KY 26 February 1942 Fort Thomas, Newport, Kentucky

Other

Interned

Corlu, Turkey 1 August 1943

Died

Kenton County, KY 30 September 1964

Buried

Hill Crest Cemetery Dry Ridge, Grant County, KY Hill Crest Cemetery Dry Ridge, Grant County, Kentucky

Based

Hardwick Assigned to 328BS, 93BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Sources

'Ploesti' by Dugan & Stewart, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol I p. 221 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia