Crew Roster · Personal File

Charles Conley

MACR-12008 Account

Tail gunner of B-24J 42-78486. Middle initial appears as both "F." (MACR form) and "P." (German documents); "F." is used per the official MACR.

Captured 28 January 1945 on Schouwen Island, Holland. Among the second group of four transferred to Dulag Luft West on 2 February 1945. Home address appears as both 1127 North First Street, Glencoe, NY and 312 North First Street, Olean, NY across the two next-of-kin pages.

Prisoner of War

Sortie Log

2 CATALOGUED SORTIES
08 JAN 1945 — 28 JAN 1945

The sorties 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.

8AF Mission

Date

Target

Aircraft

№ 787

08 JAN 1945

Dortmund

B-24J serial 42-78486, marked "486-G," departed Hardwick on a bombing mission to Dortmund on 8 January 1945. The aircraft left the formation just before bombs-away and peeled off to the right, apparently still under control when last observed. German records (Downing No. KU 3628 / H 131) indicate the aircraft crashed and burned on the southwest point of Schouwen Island, Holland, on 28 January 1945 at 1400 hours. Markings were not identifiable as the aircraft burned in the combat area. All ten crew members survived and were captured. They were processed through the POW Concentration Point of the Air Forces, Holland, and transferred to Dulag Luft West (Evaluation Center West, Oberursel) beginning 30 January 1945.

Letter suffix unclear; OCR reads '[?]'

42-78486