Status: POW/FOD

Place of death: 2.5 miles SW of Neuwied, Germany

Co-Pilot of B-26B-20-MA #41-31710 "General Sherman" lost on mission to Enger, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 12341

Carl flying Co-Pilot this day. Mission target Engers RR Bridge. Very heavy flak. Bombs are dropped. Flak hits plane over target and sets engine on fire. The 3 rear crew bail out of the right waist window. Plane dives, spins, pilot regains control, fire goes out. Bombardier/Navigator helps Carl get free. They bail out of bomb bay. Pilot stays with plane until it spins again, he regains control enough to make forced landing in a field near the Rhine on the East side, North of Koblenz near Sayn. Everyone survives. Pilot and all other crew are captured, taken POW. Carl captured and executed on ground by SS. Declared MIA for one year. First burial in church cemetery, Rengsdorf, Germany. Later removed to his final resting place here, Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten.

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN) #O-721070

Enlistment Date: 10/03/1942

Entered the Service from: Iowa

557th Bomb Squadron, 387th Bomb Group, Medium

Awards: Purple Heart

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. Oscar E. Heline (Father)

Marcus, Iowa

***I would like to thank Al SKiff Find A Grave ID 49788721 for adding his photo of Carl in addition to updating middle name and death location on this memorial***

***I would like to thank Laura Phillips Find A Grave ID 47011310 for adding her photos to this memorial***

***I would like to thank Des Philippet Find A Grave ID 46914181 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank Traugott Vitz Find A Grave ID 49533657 for updating the death location information on this memorial***