Forty two years after their mission, on 19 September 1987, fifty ex Carpetbaggers returned to Harrington to dedicate a memorial to Chuckie and the other Carpetbagger US Army Air Forces lost during WWII. The memorial is placed in a position overlooking the airfield where the B-24s carried out one of its most effective contributions to the Allied victory.

Chuckie’s family never knew that he was a Carpetbagger, that RAF Harrington was his base, or that this memorial to him existed until earlier this year when a family member and author of this blog began researching facts about about his life and contribution to Freedom.
The experience and techniques perfected during Carpetbagger operations were used as the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) continued to develop into a worldwide organization. For this reason many records of the 801st / 492nd Bomb Group and the US Army Airmen like Chuckie that Carpetbaggers remained secret or restricted until the 1980s.

The Carpetbagger Aviation Museum was formed in 1993 for the 50^th Anniversary reunion of the USAAF’s 801st / 492^nd Bomb Group (The Carpetbaggers) at Harrington. It is housed in the Group Operations Building on the Administration Site of the former Station 179 airfield at Harrington, Northamptonshire, England. The Museum is administered by members of the Harrington Aviation Museum Society, a Registered Charity No 1061997

The author of Unforgotten Glory plans to visit Harrington RAF and The Carpetbagger Museum to pay respects at the last place Chuckie and his fellow comrades walked the earth as they prepared and then took off 27 April 1944 into the dark night sky.