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Lieutenant Carl R. Wildner

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37th Bomb Squadron
- First name:
Carl
- Middle name:
Richard
- Last name:
Wildner
- Nickname:
-
- Rank Doolittle raid:
Lieutenant
- Last rank:
Lieutenant Colonel
- Service number:
0-352857
- Date of birth:
18 May 1915
- Place of birth:
Holyoke, Massachusetts
- Date of death:
07 March 1994
- Place of death:
Cornwall, Pennsylvania
- Place of the cemetery:
Annville, Pennsylvania
- Name of the cemetery:
Indiantown Gap National Cemetery

Additional info

Lieutenant Carl R. Wildner was the son of August I. Wildner and Alma C. Markert.

He married for the second time with Hilda L. Leveridge in 1958. In Philadelphia. Hilda was born on 12 May 1915 and died on 3 March 2007

Out of his first marriage with Marie G. Phillips he had two children. A son and a daughter. Marie G. Phillips was born in 1922 and died during 2004.

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Crew 02 in China, left Carl Wildner. The man in the white suite is  Tung-Sheng Liu, the Chinese student who acted as an interpretor and guide for Crew 02 in China.

He helped lead the members of Crew 02 through Japanese-occupied areas in China. Copyright @ nara-usa - public domain.  Colorized by WW2DB 

Not much info to be find about Carl Wildner. Like the others he was selected for the Doolittle Raid in Februari 1942.

 

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