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Charles Emil Gutmann collection, 1942-1943, Date accessioned: 2019-08-12

 

Summary

Creator:
Gutmann, Charles Emil, 1923-1943
Jesse, Charles F.
Extent:
.5 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Charles Emil Gutmann collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_19_0015

Background

Scope and content:

This collection relates to Second Lieutenant Charles Emil Gutmann who served with the 333rd Bomb Group, 468th Bomber Squadron, during World War II. He was one of seven airmen killed during training when B-17F Flying Fortress #42-5981 crashed, six miles northwest of the Dalhart Army Airfield, Texas. The collection includes military personnel documents, Western Union Telegram notifying of death, and photographs.

Biographical / historical:

Second Lieutenant Charles Emil Gutmann was born on July 1, 1923 in New York to Emil and Grace Gutmann and raised in Ridgefield Park, NJ. He also had a sister named Grace. He entered service in the U.S. Army Air Corps on September 22, 1942. He attended Pre-Flight School, Ellington Field, Ellington, TX as a cadet in December 1942 and graduated as Bombardier on June 3, 1943, Class 43-8, Army Air Forces Bombardier School, Big Springs, Texas. He next attended Flexible Gunnery School in Laredo, TX from June 18, 1843 to August 2, 1943. On September 8, 1943 Lt. Gutmann was assigned to a crew with the 468th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group. The 333rd Bomb Group was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Operational Training Unit assigned to Second Air Force that trained crews before being deployed overseas. Lieutenant Gutmann was killed on September 22, 1943 along with his crew James B. Buckel, Leonard E. Dudek, Howard I. Ravven, Jack P. Beck, LeRoy A. Eckes, and Kenneth P. Leach during a training accident on a B-17F Flying Fortress which crashed six miles northwest of the Dalhart Army Airfield, Texas. He is buried in Hackensack Cemetery, Hackensack, NJ.

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Charles Emil Gutmann collection, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida.http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/WWII_19_0015

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA