Shot down on 9 October 1942 in B-24D-1-CO Liberator #41-23678 'Big Eagle'/'Bathtub Bessie'. Plane attacked by fighters on assigned target Lille I/A, France. The Liberator received direct hits to engine no. 4 and the bomb bay area before crashing near Lille, France. There were 6 killed in action, 1 evaded and 3 Prisoner of War (POW)s. No Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) for this loss. This was the first B-24 listed as MIA from the 8th Air Force. 

41-23678 Liberator crew killed in action:

SSGT Arthur M Torrey, Radio Operator

SSGT Clayton C Kammerer, Waist Gunner

SSGT Stephen J. Eppolito, Waist Gunner

SGT James DeToris, Ball Turret Gunner

41-23678 Liberator crew killed in action in group burial:

1LT Carl N Garrott, Navigator

2LT William A Marsh, Bombardier

Crewmembers of B-17F #41-24510 "Snoozy II" killed in action in the group burial:

2LT Joseph N Gates

SSGT Bruce C Nicholson

SSGT Truman C Wilder

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-789241

Enlistment Date: 10/07/1941 at Scott Field, Illinois with Service No. #16041264

330th Bomb Squadron, 367th Bomb Group, Heavy

Carl N. Garrott is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Union County, Illinois.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Route 1, Anna, Union County, Illinois. Contact person listed as Lester D. Garrott (Father) of same address. Place of birth listed as Balcom, Union County, Illinois on 11/02/1918. Middle name listed as Nathan. Employed by self & School District No. #72, Union County, Illinois as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 lists WWII overseas dead returned. Re-interred on April 30th, 1952. Next of Kin listed as Mr. & Mrs. Lester D. Garrott (Parents), Anna, Illinois.

***I would like to thank Elton Gibb Find A Grave ID 49860930 for adding his photo of Carl to this memorial***

***I would like to thank Tracy Lichtenwalter Find A Grave ID 47112158 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank Dedicated ~ Aurorae Little ♥UE ✞ Find A Grave ID 48644964 for adding their photo to this memorial in addition to updating the death location information as well as linking his parents to it***