Area man a B-24 ‘Liberator’ tail gunner in the Pacific
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Carl Driver, of Alligator Manufactured Home Park south of Punta Gorda, was a tailgunner on a B-24 "Liberator" in World War II, stands beside the nose art on his bomber "Passionate Witch." He flew in the 13th Air Force in the Pacific.
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Driver is pictured in the rear turret of his B-24 "Liberator" at his twin .50 caliber machine-guns.
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Carl Driver today at age 91.
Carl Driver was the tail gunner in a B-24 “Liberator” four-engine, heavy bomber dubbed “Passionate Witch.” They were part of the 13th Air Force, 50th Bomb Group, 23rd Bomb Squadron that flew from captured island air bases built by the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.
He was working for Mobile Oil Co. in New Jersey when he was drafted by the Army on Aug. 15, 1942. Driver wound up in an Army Air Corps boot camp in Atlantic City, N.J.
