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Flt Off Bennie Rubio Carbajal

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Flt Off Bennie Rubio Carbajal Veteran

Birth
Goliad County, Texas, USA
Death
5 Jan 1944 (aged 22)
Neumünster, Stadtkreis Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Burial
Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium Add to Map
Plot
Plot A Row 9 Grave 12
Memorial ID
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Unit 77th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group
Rank Flight Officer U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death January 5 1944
Buried Plot A Row 9 Grave 12
Ardennes American Cemetery

Assigned to 77FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) target support to Kiel crashed near Neuminster in P-38J 42-67186 5-Jan-44 Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1859.

Recipient of the Air Medal and Purple Heart

Bennie Carbajal was the son of Anestacio Carbajal and Pomposa Rubio 30 August 1921 in Goliad, Goliad County, Texas. Enlisted 4 Nov 1940 at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Bexar county, Texas.
Carbajal is memorialized in the La Bahia Cemetery in his home town of Goliad near his older brother, , Gilbert , who was KIA in Holland.
Unit 77th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group
Rank Flight Officer U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death January 5 1944
Buried Plot A Row 9 Grave 12
Ardennes American Cemetery

Assigned to 77FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) target support to Kiel crashed near Neuminster in P-38J 42-67186 5-Jan-44 Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 1859.

Recipient of the Air Medal and Purple Heart

Bennie Carbajal was the son of Anestacio Carbajal and Pomposa Rubio 30 August 1921 in Goliad, Goliad County, Texas. Enlisted 4 Nov 1940 at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Bexar county, Texas.
Carbajal is memorialized in the La Bahia Cemetery in his home town of Goliad near his older brother, , Gilbert , who was KIA in Holland.

Inscription

FLO 77 FTR SQ 20 FTR GP TEXAS

Gravesite Details

Entered the service from Texas.



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