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Charles B. Sewell (1918-1991) enlisted in the Army in 1942. Technical Segeant Sewell was a top turrent gunner in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortess, 350th Bomb Squadron, 100 Bomb Group. He was on his 14th mission when he was shot down over Germany. Sewell was held as a POW from May 1944 until April of 1945, with most of his time spent in Stalag Luft IV. Sewell was discharged from the Army in October 1945.
NASM.1993.0014
Sewell, Charles B., 1918-1991
1940-1993
bulk 1942-1946
Mae Y. Sewell, Gift, 1993, 1993-0014, NASM
0.1 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the wartime log Sewell kept while a prisoner at Stalag Luft IV. The log includes poems, sketches, photographs, and food labels from the Red Cross Parcels. The collection also contains V-Mail and prisoner mail postcards, copies of newspaper articles about Sewell and Stalag Luft IV; photographs of Sewell; and copies of The Oversea Kid newspaper 1944. There are also newspaper articles on POW Edward Sanders, and cassette narratives of the following three POWs who were imprisoned with Sewell: Casper Vecchione; William Chamberlain; and Frank Ray.
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Prisoners of war
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany
Stalag Luft IV (Germany : Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
World War, 1939-1945
Periodicals
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Logs (records)
Photographs
Postcards
Audiocassettes
Clippings