Paul E. Charbonneau

World War II
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Fallen

County:
Cavalier

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Technical Sergeant

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:
786th Bomber Squadron

Regiment / Group / Brigade:
466th Bomber Group

Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968

Major Battle/Theatre:
European African Middle Eastern Theater

Medals and Honors:

Circumstances:

B-24H #41-29423 took off from Attlebridge, England on a bombing mission over Oschersleben, Germany. They were attacked by German fighter planes which damaged the #1 engine causing them to crash in Germany during the war. 

Biography:

born Olga, NDak 23 Feb 21; resident Cavalier County, NDak; entered AUS Ft Snelling, Minn 21 Jan 43; served European African Middle Eastern Theater; KIA 1 Nov 45 Oshershleben, Germany; buried in Section 84, Grave 21, Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St Louis, Mo

Paul served as a Technical Sergeant & Engineer on B-24H #41-29423, 786th Bomber Squadron, 466th Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

He resided in Los Angeles County, California prior to the war.

He was awarded the Purple Heart.

The reason he is named on a group headstone is because when soldiers & sailors were killed in close proximity to each other they were unable, at that time, to identify them separately and interred their remains together in one grave.