U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-757927
Enlistment Date: 10/14/1941 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana with Service No. #15082128
Entered the Service from: Indiana
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Charles Sherrill is listed under Finding Of Death in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 210A Mulberry Street, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Contact person listed as Mr. William Purdy Sherrill (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Bisbee, Arizona on 02/22/1918. Employed by West Kentucky Coal Company, Inc., 106 East Sycamore Street, Evansville, Indiana as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mr. Mahlon P. Sherrill (Father)
305 Mulberry Street
Evansville, Indiana
Information below found on http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/25188:
Bombardier aboard B-17G-15-BO Flying Fortress #42-31367 "Chow Hound" which was hit by flak and blew aircraft in half on a mission to bomb targets near Caan, France. Crashed at Gelnannes, south of Alencon, France. Missing Air Crew Report #8079.
Information below found at http://arlingtoncemetery.net/aircrew-08081944.htm:
The remains of three airmen missing in action from a World War II combat mission in 1944 have been identified and returned to their families for burial, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Second Lieutenant David J. Nelson, of Chicago; Technical Sergeant Henry F. Kortebein, of Maspeth, New York, and Technical Sergeant Blake A. Treece, Jr., of Marshall, Arkanas, are to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, the Pentagon said.
Nelson, Kortebein and Treece were among nine airmen aboard a B-17G Flying Fortress on a mission to bomb targets near Caen, France, on Aug. 8, 1944, when the plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed near a village south of Caen.
German forces and French villagers recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing U.S. forces found additional remains, and six of the nine men ultimately were identified. But Nelson, Kortebein and Treece remained unaccounted for.
In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, which is responsible for accounting for missing servicemen, was told that a French aircraft wreckage hunting group had found a crash site near the village where the B-17G went down. The U.S. team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials in the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs.
Some of 2nd LT Charles Sherrill's remains may also be found at Memorial ID
17891497 in Arlington National Cemetery. My burial location is confirmed by the following record found at https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/sherrill%3Dcharles-0.
***I would like to thank frédéric Lavernhe Find A Grave ID 48763008 for adding his photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank gracedv Find A Grave ID 48727850 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 10/14/1941 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana with Service No. #15082128
Entered the Service from: Indiana
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Charles Sherrill is listed under Finding Of Death in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 210A Mulberry Street, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Contact person listed as Mr. William Purdy Sherrill (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Bisbee, Arizona on 02/22/1918. Employed by West Kentucky Coal Company, Inc., 106 East Sycamore Street, Evansville, Indiana as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mr. Mahlon P. Sherrill (Father)
305 Mulberry Street
Evansville, Indiana
Information below found on http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/25188:
Bombardier aboard B-17G-15-BO Flying Fortress #42-31367 "Chow Hound" which was hit by flak and blew aircraft in half on a mission to bomb targets near Caan, France. Crashed at Gelnannes, south of Alencon, France. Missing Air Crew Report #8079.
Information below found at http://arlingtoncemetery.net/aircrew-08081944.htm:
The remains of three airmen missing in action from a World War II combat mission in 1944 have been identified and returned to their families for burial, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Second Lieutenant David J. Nelson, of Chicago; Technical Sergeant Henry F. Kortebein, of Maspeth, New York, and Technical Sergeant Blake A. Treece, Jr., of Marshall, Arkanas, are to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, the Pentagon said.
Nelson, Kortebein and Treece were among nine airmen aboard a B-17G Flying Fortress on a mission to bomb targets near Caen, France, on Aug. 8, 1944, when the plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed near a village south of Caen.
German forces and French villagers recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing U.S. forces found additional remains, and six of the nine men ultimately were identified. But Nelson, Kortebein and Treece remained unaccounted for.
In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, which is responsible for accounting for missing servicemen, was told that a French aircraft wreckage hunting group had found a crash site near the village where the B-17G went down. The U.S. team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials in the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs.
Some of 2nd LT Charles Sherrill's remains may also be found at Memorial ID
17891497 in Arlington National Cemetery. My burial location is confirmed by the following record found at https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/sherrill%3Dcharles-0.
***I would like to thank frédéric Lavernhe Find A Grave ID 48763008 for adding his photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank gracedv Find A Grave ID 48727850 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-757927
Enlistment Date: 10/14/1941 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana with Service No. #15082128
Entered the Service from: Indiana
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Charles Sherrill is listed under Finding Of Death in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 210A Mulberry Street, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Contact person listed as Mr. William Purdy Sherrill (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Bisbee, Arizona on 02/22/1918. Employed by West Kentucky Coal Company, Inc., 106 East Sycamore Street, Evansville, Indiana as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mr. Mahlon P. Sherrill (Father)
305 Mulberry Street
Evansville, Indiana
Information below found on http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/25188:
Bombardier aboard B-17G-15-BO Flying Fortress #42-31367 "Chow Hound" which was hit by flak and blew aircraft in half on a mission to bomb targets near Caan, France. Crashed at Gelnannes, south of Alencon, France. Missing Air Crew Report #8079.
Information below found at http://arlingtoncemetery.net/aircrew-08081944.htm:
The remains of three airmen missing in action from a World War II combat mission in 1944 have been identified and returned to their families for burial, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Second Lieutenant David J. Nelson, of Chicago; Technical Sergeant Henry F. Kortebein, of Maspeth, New York, and Technical Sergeant Blake A. Treece, Jr., of Marshall, Arkanas, are to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, the Pentagon said.
Nelson, Kortebein and Treece were among nine airmen aboard a B-17G Flying Fortress on a mission to bomb targets near Caen, France, on Aug. 8, 1944, when the plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed near a village south of Caen.
German forces and French villagers recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing U.S. forces found additional remains, and six of the nine men ultimately were identified. But Nelson, Kortebein and Treece remained unaccounted for.
In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, which is responsible for accounting for missing servicemen, was told that a French aircraft wreckage hunting group had found a crash site near the village where the B-17G went down. The U.S. team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials in the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs.
Some of 2nd LT Charles Sherrill's remains may also be found at Memorial ID
17891497 in Arlington National Cemetery. My burial location is confirmed by the following record found at https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/sherrill%3Dcharles-0.
***I would like to thank frédéric Lavernhe Find A Grave ID 48763008 for adding his photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank gracedv Find A Grave ID 48727850 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
Enlistment Date: 10/14/1941 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana with Service No. #15082128
Entered the Service from: Indiana
322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Charles Sherrill is listed under Finding Of Death in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 210A Mulberry Street, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Contact person listed as Mr. William Purdy Sherrill (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Bisbee, Arizona on 02/22/1918. Employed by West Kentucky Coal Company, Inc., 106 East Sycamore Street, Evansville, Indiana as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mr. Mahlon P. Sherrill (Father)
305 Mulberry Street
Evansville, Indiana
Information below found on http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/25188:
Bombardier aboard B-17G-15-BO Flying Fortress #42-31367 "Chow Hound" which was hit by flak and blew aircraft in half on a mission to bomb targets near Caan, France. Crashed at Gelnannes, south of Alencon, France. Missing Air Crew Report #8079.
Information below found at http://arlingtoncemetery.net/aircrew-08081944.htm:
The remains of three airmen missing in action from a World War II combat mission in 1944 have been identified and returned to their families for burial, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Second Lieutenant David J. Nelson, of Chicago; Technical Sergeant Henry F. Kortebein, of Maspeth, New York, and Technical Sergeant Blake A. Treece, Jr., of Marshall, Arkanas, are to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, the Pentagon said.
Nelson, Kortebein and Treece were among nine airmen aboard a B-17G Flying Fortress on a mission to bomb targets near Caen, France, on Aug. 8, 1944, when the plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed near a village south of Caen.
German forces and French villagers recovered some of the remains of the crew and buried them nearby. Advancing U.S. forces found additional remains, and six of the nine men ultimately were identified. But Nelson, Kortebein and Treece remained unaccounted for.
In August 2002, a team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, which is responsible for accounting for missing servicemen, was told that a French aircraft wreckage hunting group had found a crash site near the village where the B-17G went down. The U.S. team surveyed the site, excavated it in July 2004 and recovered human remains, personal effects and crew-related materials in the wreckage. Also found were six unexploded 250-pound bombs.
Some of 2nd LT Charles Sherrill's remains may also be found at Memorial ID
17891497 in Arlington National Cemetery. My burial location is confirmed by the following record found at https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/sherrill%3Dcharles-0.
***I would like to thank frédéric Lavernhe Find A Grave ID 48763008 for adding his photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank gracedv Find A Grave ID 48727850 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
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CHARLES SHERRILL
2LT 322 BOMB SQ 91 BOMB GP (H)
INDIANA AUG 8 1944
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