Charles Truitt Holbrook
MilitaryAssigned 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
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- 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
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- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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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