Name:
Charles R. Wilbanks
Rank:
Sergeant
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Unit:
16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group
Date of Death:
1948-11-03
State:
California
Cemetery:
Tracy City Cemetery, Tracy City, Tennessee
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Charles R. Wilbanks was born on November 12, 1917. He was the navigator aboard U.S. Air Force RB-29A Superfortress #44-61999. He perished when the reconnaissance-variant bomber, named "Overexposed" collided, in poor visibility weather, with a ridgetop called Higher Shelf Stones, near Glossop, England (approximately midway between Manchester and Sheffield) while on a flight from RAF Scampton to RAF Burtonwood. All 13 aboard were killed.
Sgt Wilbanks is now buried in the Tracy City Cemetery, Tracy City, Grundy County, Tennessee, USA.
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