Arthur Lee Crandall

BRANCH OF SERVICE
Army Air Corps (Army Air Forces)

RANK
Staff Sergeant

HOMETOWN
Paoli, IN

HONORED BY
Grateful American


Enlisted on 9 December 1941 at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. 
Served with the 93rd Bomb Group 330th Bomb Squadron as a waist
gunner on B 24 Liberators.Set 8th air Force record for downing the 
first German FW 190 from B-24#41-23667 "Barber Bob". Was shot 
down in B-24 # 41-23983 16 April 1943 on a mission to Bomb U-boat 
pens in Brest, France taken POW and place in POW camp Stalag 17 B
near Kerms, Austria until 30 May 1945.