The Mustang that stalled his engine and left him behind enemy lines
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The Mustang that stalled his engine and left him behind enemy lines
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A P-51 pilot bails out over enemy territory, waits at the edge of a German airfield, and — according to the story that followed him for decades — steals a plane off the ground to fly himself home. It's the kind of tale that gets repeated at reunions and printed in books until it hardens into fact. But near the end of his life, standing in front of the men who had served beside him, Bruce Ward Carr said something about that story that changes how you have to read everything else in his file.
In this episode, we trace Bruce Ward Carr's documented combat record across three wars against the legend that made him famous, asking what happens when a man's real achievements are overshadowed by a story he made up himself.
Person: Bruce Ward Carr
Location: Schweinfurt, Germany
Date: April 2, 1945
Case: the stolen-plane escape story attached to his name for decades
Status: publicly disavowed by Carr himself late in life
- Born January 28, 1924, in Union Springs, New York; enlisted in the Army Air Forces on September 3, 1942
- On April 2, 1945, near Schweinfurt, Carr led four aircraft against sixty German fighters, personally destroying five and becoming the last American ace-in-a-day of the European Theater
- No Missing Air Crew Report, Evasion Report, or unit-history entry exists for the alleged November 2, 1944 bailout and stolen-aircraft incident
- At the Air Force Association of America Annual Reunion in San Antonio, Carr told his former unit the escape story was "a bar story that got out of hand"
- He flew 172 combat missions in Europe, 57 in Korea, and 286 in Vietnam, earning the Silver Star, the Distinguished Service Cross, a Legion of Merit, and three Distinguished Flying Crosses before dying on April 25, 1998 — the same date as his final aerial victories in 1945 — and being buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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