409th Bomb Squadron. His ETO tour started in the summer of 1944, after D-Day. MOS 1035 bombardier, also checked out in navigation. After 11 missions he lost his original crew and flew as pilotage navigator on lead crews, working toward 25. The tour ended on the 20th mission in January 1945: force landing at Bulltofta and internment in Sweden.
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.
Articles, columns, and letters naming this airman in the 2nd Air Division Association journals and the group’s own newsletters. The summaries below are ours; the pieces themselves belong to the writers and publications that produced them.
Karl Eisele of the 409th began his ETO tour after D-Day. His twentieth mission ended in a force landing at Bulltofta; the crew were interned in Sweden.
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