Name:
Carl H., Jr. Booth
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-673467
Unit:
366th Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1943-10-14
State:
New Jersey
Cemetery:
Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Comments:
Carl H. Booth, Jr. was born on January 18, 1918, in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. He served in the 366th Bomber Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Heavy, as a Flight Officer and Navigator on the B-17 #42-3195 during World War II. He was Killed in Action on October 14, 1943, when his airplane was shot down by a German fighter plane Ofw. Heckmann 1./JG1 and crashed at Waldenrath, Germany. F/O Booth's body was never recovered. His name is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing, Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.