Charles Andrews Mc WILLIAMS

 

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Source : Paul Webber
 
NUMBER OF SERVICE17069170 
AGE22 yo
DATE OF BIRTH13 May 1922
ENLISTMENT STATEIOWA
FAMILYParents : Verne R. & Velma M.
Siblings : Donald C, Virginia M, Raymond D, Charles A. & Robert G.
RANKSergeant
FONCTIONNose gunner
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT Iowa
DATE of ENLISTEMENT8 October 1942
 SQUADRON838th Bomber Squadron
 GROUP487th Bomber Group, Heavy
ARMY8th US Air Force
DATE OF DEATH6 June 1944

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Source : F Lavernhe

STATUSKIA
PLACE OF DEATHIn sea
DATA PLAN

Bombardier B-24H 42-52629 "Sweatin' It Out"

b24

Macr: 6484 

Take off: Station 137 near Lavenham, Suffolk

CEMETERYNORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
Wall of the Missing
DECORATION

Air Medal

Purple Heart

World War II Victory Medal

 

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Photo FDLM

victory medal

 

 
usaf  8air force  487bg 838bs
STORY

Charles was born in Iowa, he is one of seven children of Verne and Velma Mc WILLIAMS.

The family has always lived in Iowa in Columbus Junction and then in Bloomfield.

After his four years of High School, he worked as a mechanic. He left civilian life to join the US Army Air Corps in October 1942 and enlisted at Camp Dodge in Iowa.

He spent several phases of training and finished his training with those of flight engineer and anti-aircraft fire and was assigned as a crew member to B-24 "SWEATIN 'IT OUT" of Lieutenant GROSS. He began his crew training on B-24 in December 1943 at Davis Monthan, Arizona.

On January 3, 1944, the crew under the command of Lieutenant GROSS was assigned to the 838th Bomb Group of the 487th Bomb Group on the Alamogordo base in New Mexico in order to finalize the training of the B-24 crews until March 16, 1944 .


 

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Source : Bruno Cadeville
 
 

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Source : Paul Webber

It is then the deployment to Great Britain at Lavenham where the 487th arrives on April 5, 1944.

The 487th Bomb Group is based at station 137 north of the village of Sudbury in Suffolk.

The history of B-24 42-52629 "SWEATIN 'IT OUT" begins in May 1944 with its first missions.

On June 6, 1944, the 487th Bomb Group sent two squadrons on the first of three DDAY missions.

The mission is to bomb an important crossing of Caen in order to prevent or disrupt the German reinforcements following the landing, but a cloud cover blocks the visibility and they do not find their target, preferring to spare civilian lives they will try to find that target and a lot of time will be wasted finding it.

They then take the return route following the heavy bombers affected area which passes to the west of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Bombers will drop their bombs into the sea.

At 8:42 am, Saffron Walden station received a distress call from "SWEATIN 'IT OUT", it was located 25 miles from Aldernay Island with its four engines stopped.

The crew was never found.

Equipage du B-24H 42-52629 "Sweatin'It Out"

Markowitz Equipage

2/Lt Norman E. GROSS Pilot - 2/Lt Willard D. HASKELL Co-Pilot
2/Lt Francis E. MOKE Navigator - S/Sgt Benjamin A. HUEBEL Jr Engineer
S/Sgt Max I. MARKOWITZ Radio - Sgt Charles Mc WILLIAMS Nose Turret
Sgt Stanley J. BENSON Upper Turret - Sgt Harold O. ALLENSWORTH Ball Turret - S/Sgt Henry B. WESTOFF Jr Tail Turret

SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTOBruno Cadeville   Findagrave.com - Abmc.gov
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