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Charles William FLOYD Jr
“Junior”
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Source : Arnaud Gaté (Ellen Marchese)
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| NUMBER OF SERVICE | O-797983 (14101968) | ||||||
| AGE | 26 yo | ||||||
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19 May 1917 Memphis, Shelby County, TENNESSEE | ||||||
| ENLISTMENT STATE | TENNESSEE | ||||||
| FAMILY |
Spouse : Madeleine Brabant ESTES Parents : Charles William & Theresa Knaup FLOYD Siblings : Katherine Rosamond , William Lawrence, Leonard Marshall , Mary Elizabeth & Theresa Margaret | ||||||
| RANK | First Lieutenant | ||||||
| FONCTION | Pilot | ||||||
| JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT | Unskilled occupations in production of chemical products |  | |||||
| DATE of ENLISTEMENT | 29 March 1942 Memphis TENNESSEE | ||||||
| SQUADRON | 351st Bomber Squadron | ||||||
| GROUP | 100th Bomber Group, Heavy | ||||||
| ARMY | 8th US Air Force | ||||||
| DATE OF DEATH | 3 September 1943 |
Source : F Lavernhe | |||||
| STATUS | KIA | ||||||
| PLACE OF DEATH | Beaumont, Essonne | ||||||
| DATA PLAN |
B-17 Fortress - type F-85-BO - s/n 42-30059 EP*G
Macr : 685 Décollage station 139 Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk Collision avec le B-17 42-30089 Explose en vol 2 hommes sont éjectés par l'explosion (Rosenberg et Coon) | ||||||
| CEMETERY TEMPORARY |
CEMETERY TEMPORARY of St André N°3572
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| CEMETERY | NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville | ||||||
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| DECORATION |
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| STORY | |||||||
| Pilot of B17 42-5865, Co-pilot: Jack Boyd, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Neal, Radio Operator: Theo Price, Ball turret gunner: Earl Griggs, Waist gunner: Pete Theodore, Waist gunner: Dale Huffer,T ail gunner: John Williams (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bob Rosenburg, B-Frank Coon (2 Prisoner of War); hit in #3 engine by aircraft above 42-5865 then crashed Beaumont, near Evreux, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 685. BARKER'S BURDEN.∼Charlie was born on May 19, 1917, the third child of Theresa and Charles Floyd. He was athletic enjoying football, tennis and golf. He attended Catholic High School and played on the football team. Charlie loved aviation and in 1937 at age 19, he won the title of Champion Junior Aviator as a member of the Press-Scimitar Junior Aviator Squadron competing in the Championship Model Airplane contest. As the champion, he represented Memphis at the National Junior Air Races in Akron, Ohio. |
Source : Julia M. | ||||||
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Madeleine and Charles on their wedding day. Source : Anne Wulff | Charlie joined the Air Force, became a lieutenant and piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II. He married Madeleine Brabant on February 27, 1943 while on furlough. He was sent overseas in May of that year as part of the 351st Squadron of the 100th Bomb Group stationed at Thorpe Abbotts in Norfolk, Engand. On September 3, 1943, after a raid of Paris, he was reported missing. From the Press-Scimitar on September 16, 1943: "As a boy, he had always been mechanically minded. He designed and built his own model planes with which he won the Junior Aviator contest. As a Fortress pilot in England he had shown the same inventiveness. On one occasion he invented something which he believed improved the action of the guns on his plane and wrote that he might be court martialed for monkeying with the plane. Instead he got the Oak Leaf Cluster to an Air Medal he had previously won. He has two other inventions on file with the Army which may yet play a part in the defeat of the Axis, although he himself is probably out of the fight. The last word from Lt. Floyd was a letter in which he wrote that he was grounded for a while because his plane was moth-eaten when I brought her home from the last raid," he wrote." On October 27, 1943, word was received that Charlie had died. He was 26. | ||||||
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Equipage du B-17 Fortress - type F-85-BO - s/n 42-30059 EP*G
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| 2Lt | Charles William Jr FLOYD | Pilot | Dead | Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer | O-797983 - AM+1/PH - Born in 1917 - Tennessee |  |
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| 2Lt | Jack Conduitt | BOYD | CoPilot | Dead | Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer | O-797959 - AM/PH - Indiana |
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| 2Lt | Robert Monroe | ROSENBERG | Navigator | Prisoner - Stalag 7A Moosburg Bavaria 48-12 | O-790298 - New York | ||
| 2Lt | Frank Cecil | COON | Bomber | Prisoner - Stalag Luft III Sagan-Silesia | O-731029 - Oklahoma | ||
| 1Lt | Peter John | THEODORE | artillery officer | Dead | Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer |
O-566897 - SoldiersMed/PH - New Jersey | |
| S/Sgt | Earl Virginia | GRIGGS |
Mecanic Gunner |
Dead | Tucumcari Mem Park - New Mexico | 39435406 - 23 yo - - Son of Foley Griggs and Jessie Beatrice Newby-Griggs |  |
| T/Sgt | Théodore Winfield | PRICE | Radio | Dead | Prairie View Cem. Grangeville, idaho | 19060566 - 23 yo- - Idaho |  |
| S/Sgt | John Melvin | NEAL | Gunner | Dead | MIA - Tablets Cim Brit Am St-James |
15086449 - AM+1/PH - Indiana |  |
| S/Sgt | Dale Powers | HUFFER | Gunner | Dead | MIA - Tablets Cim Am St-Avold | 15374675 - AM PH - Born in 1923 - Kosciusko County, Indiana |
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| S/Sgt | John Kenneth | WILLIAMS | Gunner | Dead | Antioch Township Cem. Mesick, Wexford Co, Michigan | 36182662 -31 yo |
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| SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTO | Francecrashes39-45.net - Abmc.gov - Findagrave.com - Aad.archives.gov - Americanairmuseum.com |
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| PROGRAMMEURS | Eric, Henri, Garrett, Clive, Frédéric & Renaud |