John L Carrick

Military

Killed in Action (KIA) 8-Aug-43 in B-24D 42-40555, 479th ASG; 4th ASS while serving as Bombardier. Aircraft wad shot down by enemy aircraft NW of Cabo Ortegal, Spain. Member of an antisubmarine squadron that was in the 8th 3 months and then transferred to the Navy.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 479th Anti-Submarine Group

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Events

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Killed in Action (MIA)

8 August 1943 Killed when aircraft was shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed into the sea NW of Cabo Ortegal, Spain. His remains have never been recovered.

Other

Commemorated

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7PH, UK Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery.

Revisions

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Lee Cunningham 14-May-2015 Added decorations, made connection to Unit , Place and Mission within existing website data; Added SN and KIA event per National Archive Records Administration (NARA) MACR 257; edited Summary biography with date, aircraft model, group, squadron; crew position per "Losses of the 8 th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey, MBE; added Commemoration event per American Battle Monument Commission (AMBC) records.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop & Hey p. 225