World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
Carl John Weller, Jr.
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Detroit, Michigan
Honored By
Orville L. Kline
Rank: Staff Sergeant. On January 20, 1939, he entered the United States Army Air Corps from Detroit, Michigan and served as a Waist Gunner in a B-17G Flying Fortress Bomber. Assigned to the 526th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 41st Combat Bomb Wing, first Bomb Division, United States Eighth ‘Mighty Eighth’ Army Air Corps. His squadron was based at the Royal Air Force Station in Kimbolton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in Great Britain, Army Air Force Station #117. The Flying Fortress came under attack, shot down by German anti-aircraft Artillery fire on a bombing raid to Oranienburg, Germany Sunday, August 13, 1944 and crashed near Falaise, France. After bailing out, he was captured by the German Armed forces. Incarcerated at the German Prisoner of War Camp Stalag Luft 4 Gross-Tychow, Pomerania, Prussia for 9½ months, repatriated June 6, 1945. This Airman, an American Patriot, so gallantly served in the defense of his country.