Serviceman

Charles R Finlayson

Play his story on the map built from his record

Army serial number

0767780

Rank

2LT (25 October 1944), 1LT (29 November 1944), 1LT (7 March 1945), 1LT (21 March 1945)

Hometown

TYLER TX; TAYLOR TX; Tyler TX

Also written

Charles Finlayson

In the book

Heroes of the 483rd, p. 64

Sources

483bg-record, assoc-roster, heroes-book, morning-report · service record at 483bg.org

Crews

• Charles R. Finlayson Crew, pilot · 840th

Missions placed on him

• mission 99, 4 October 1944 · Munich West · The Charles R. Finlayson crew flew it, per its history in Heroes of the 483rd (p. 64)

A report lists him aboard, or his crew's history in Heroes of the 483rd dates the mission; the book is cited by page and not reproduced. The rest of his squadron's missions in his window are not placed on him by any document.

Awards

From the general orders indexed by the Army Air Corps Library and Museum.

Morning reports

1 entry, first 1 November 1944, last 1 November 1944. The clerk's sentence is quoted as the machine read it from microfilm: "fr dy to DS" is from duty to detached service, "sk in hosp" sick in hospital, "asgd & jd" assigned and joined.

• 1944-11-01 840th: 2d It

National Archives pages: roll 576476048 p. 1295

Death notice

Listed in the Association's TAPS column, newsletter 201909, page 3: 7/10/2015, reported by Guy Venier.

Statements, mentions and histories

11 GUY VENIER (OBIT) DIECKMAN, LESLIE B 815 8/5/2018 GUY VENIER (OBIT) FAIRBANKS, ARTHUR 815 4/9/2019 GUY VENIER (OBIT) FINLAYSON, CHARLES R 840 7/10/2015 GUY VENIER (OBIT) FLETCHER, WILLIAM R 815 7/9/2019 OLAH FLETCHER LEBLANC, HERBERT P 816 4/16/2019 GUY VENIER (OBIT) MCGINNIS JR GEORGE 815 9/9/