Benjamin F McCarty
Military
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UPL 19668
From another angle of 42-67998 “Li’l One” MC-Qbar. 8th May 1944, Landing accident RAF Wittering. Pilot was Lt. Benjamin F McCarty. Aircraft had Cat. AC battle damage from the mission.
Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Nancy on 9-May-44 in P-38 42-104289. MACR 4688.
Awards: AM (OLC), PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 9 May 1944
- Date: 8 May 1944
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Kingscliffe, Apethorpe
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Virginia, USA | 15 November 1918 | |
Enlisted |
Lee Ford Camp Rd, Ridgeway, VA 24148, USA | 18 February 1942 | Camp Lee, Virginia. |
Other Crash landed |
Wittering, Peterborough, Peterborough PE8, UK | 8 May 1944 | Landing accident RAF Wittering. P-38J 42-67998 “Li’l One”. 8th May 1944, aircraft had Cat AC battle damage from the mission. |
Other Shot down |
Nancy, France | 9 May 1944 | Shot down in P-38J 42-104289, crashed near Nancy on 9 May 1944. MACR 4688. POW. |
Other Prisoner Of War [POW] |
Stalag Luft III Żagań, Poland | 9 May 1944 | Prisoner Of War (POW). Stalag Luft III. |
Died |
7 February 1996 | ||
Buried |
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Phoenix Maricopa County AZ | 11 February 1996 | National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Phoenix Maricopa County Arizona, USA. |
San Diego, California |
Revisions
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4689, King's Cliffe Memorial Edition, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces Vol 3