World War II Honoree

Carl Arthur Groesbeck

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Wheaton, Illinois

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

Enlisted in December 1941 and earned both his bombardier and celestial navigator wings. On October 9, 1943, his plane was shot down over the Baltic Sea while returning from a mission. He spent 16 months as a Prisoner of War in Stalag Luft 3. In January of 1945, as the Soviets advanced on Germany, he and his fellow Prisoners of War were forced marched 390 miles in sub-zero temperatures from Sagan, Poland to Moosburg, Germany where he was liberated in April of 1945 by General Patton.