Name:
Charles R. Craig
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
11093394
Unit:
862nd Bomber Squadron, 493rd Bomber Group
Date of Death:
1996-04-25
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, Massachusetts
Plot:
22
Row:
0
Grave:
640
Decoration:
Comments:
Born December 8, 1921 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Gunner of an American heavy bomber, a D-24 "Liberator" from the U.S. Army 8th Air Force that crashed on the lawn of the chateau in Chambord after bombing an airport southwest of Paris and being crippled by antiaircraft fire and German fighter planes. He survived the crash, captured and sent to Stag Luft 3, a prisoner of war camp.