Carl Brandur Westman

Military

Born to Icelandic immigrants, Carl Westman, from Halldórsstaðir, Laxárdalur, Iceland and Agnete Westman, from Djúpivogur, Iceland, in Bellingham. He served for three years.

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: No Gum Chum
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Consolidated Mess
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 25 October 1944
  • Date: 19 October 1944
  • Date: 5 October 1944
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane.  Six men standing to the rear, four men kneeling in front.  Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men
  • Date: 3 August 1944

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Born

Bellingham 4 April 1924 Born to Icelandic immigrants, Carl Westman, from Halldórsstaðir, Laxárdalur, Iceland and Agnete Westman, from Djúpivogur, Iceland.

Died

24 November 2009

Enlisted

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From a reunion brochure

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1996 34th BG Roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia