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Mid-air - Collision - struck barrage balloon cable during landing at Gravesend - 1m SW of RAF Gravesend, Kent, 21/6/44 - Capt Richard F Clounch (pilot) and 2nd Lt Connor C O'Connor (nav.) - killed.

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A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 496th Fighter Training Group 802nd Reconnaissance Group (SP) 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 10601385 / T-223136
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 496th Fighter Training Group 802nd Reconnaissance Group (SP) 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-701271
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

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Manufactured

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK 24 March 1944 Hatfield Built, contract number 555/C.23(a), between 24-3-1944 and 31-12-1944.

Crashed

Gravesend, Kent, UK 21 June 1944 Mid-air - Collision - struck barrage balloon cable during landing at Gravesend - 1m SW of RAF Gravesend, Kent - Capt Richard F Clounch (pilot) - killed. 2nd Lt Connor C O'Connor (nav.) - killed.

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