Pilot Officer Carl Olaf Bodding was born on 25 November 1914 in , Jewell County, Kansas, USA, the third of the four children of Edward Andrew Bodding (1879-1961) and Lydia Ella Bodding née Dobbins (1890-1960).
In 1940 he was training as a Service Pilot in , Oklahoma, USA and went to Canada where he joined the , service number 108626. He came to England to continue his training and in 1941 he was assigned to . The gives details of his career.
He was based at and was killed in action, aged 27 years, on 28 April 1942 when flying a aeroplane, serial number AD289, over Dunkirk, France. As he has no known grave, he is at the , Cooper's Hill Lane, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey. A was also laid in Saint Lukes Cemetery, Randall, Jewell County, Kansas. He was posthumously awarded the .
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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