The Man Behind the Name
§ Biography
Sergeant Glenn R. McCarthy served as tail gunner aboard B-24D 42-40617 with the 93rd Bomb Group on the 1 August 1943 Ploesti mission. His mother, Mrs. Agnes McCarthy, was listed as next of kin at 400 Laramie Street, Maryville, Kansas.
The aircraft was destroyed by flak and crashed in the center of Ploesti. Eyewitness accounts confirmed no crew members survived. McCarthy was reported as a battle casualty on the Missing Air Crew Report.
Service record.
§ As Catalogued
Rank
Sergeant
Serial Number
27203889
Missions flown.
1 catalogued · 01 Aug 1943
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.
№
Date
Target
Aircraft
№ 115
01 Aug 1943
Ploesti Oil Fields
“José Carioca”
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Sources.
§ Provenance
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1943
Official record
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1943
Official record