Charlie Leroy Dugosh
Military
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UPL 48194
8th Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 20th Combat Wing, 448th Bomb Group, 712th Bomb Squadron, Crew #17.
L-R Stand.- Sgt Robert Cook (G), Sgt Jack Porter (G), Sgt Kenneth Dyer (R), Sgt Billy Espich (G), Sgt Edwin Pixley (G), SSgt Charlie Dugosh (E)
L-R Kneeling - 1st Lt Robert Winn (P), 2nd Lt James Harmon (CP), 2nd Lt David Tobin (N), 2nd Lt Richard Brady (B) Billy J Espich collection
L-R Stand.- Sgt Robert Cook (G), Sgt Jack Porter (G), Sgt Kenneth Dyer (R), Sgt Billy Espich (G), Sgt Edwin Pixley (G), SSgt Charlie Dugosh (E)
L-R Kneeling - 1st Lt Robert Winn (P), 2nd Lt James Harmon (CP), 2nd Lt David Tobin (N), 2nd Lt Richard Brady (B) Billy J Espich collection
Billy J Espich WWII Collection
Assigned to 712BS, 488BG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 564BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. On 5-Jan-44 B-24H 42-64451. Upon landing in poor visibility and ice on runway, A/C ran off runway and crashed. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Pforzheim in B-24 41-28763, hit by flak, crash landed Arras 1-Apr-44 POW. MACR 3596.
Awards: PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Air Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 448th Bomb Group 491st Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17107052
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Airplane Armorer-Gunner, Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Air Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 2nd Combat Bomb Wing 389th Bomb Group 448th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36181194
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 389th Bomb Group 448th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0661892
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-690738
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 2nd Air Division 20th Combat Bomb Wing 448th Bomb Group 712th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 0724661
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Places
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Bandera, TX | 17 July 1923 | Son of Cleofus Matthew and Mary Lucetta [Elsworth] Dugosh. |
Enlisted |
San Antonio, TX | 10 November 1942 | San Antonio, Texas |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 1 April 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVIIb. |
Other Crash landed |
Arras, France | 1 April 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Pforzheim in B-24 41-28763 hit by flak, crash landed Arras 1-Apr-44 POW. MACR 3596. |
Died |
Kerrville, TX | 10 April 2015 | |
Buried |
Garden of Memories Cemetery Kerrville, Kerr County, TX | 13 April 2015 | Garden of Memories Cemetery Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas |
Bandera County, TX, USA | |||
Based |
Hethel | 1 April 1944 | Transferred to 564BS, 389BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Based |
Seething | Assigned to 712BS, 488BG, 8AF USAAF. |