Clayton P Hackman Jr
Military
Caption date is clearly incorrect, as Walter D Gernand was Killed in Action on 8-Jun-44. To his left stands Lt. Clayton Hackman.
Object Number - UPL 48290 - Caption: "Lt. W.D. Gernand is congratulated after he was presented the Air Medal at an 8th Air Force Base in England. 14 June 1944." Caption date...
Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Mosquito
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 802nd Reconnaissance Group (SP) 654th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Lancaster, PA | 25 August 1917 | Son of Clayton P Sr and Daisy M [Rupp] Hackman. |
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Enlisted |
Harrisburg, PA | 29 September 1941 | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
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Other Discharged USAAF |
25 December 1945 | Honourable discharge. | |
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Died |
Tucson, AZ | 29 December 2000 | |
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Buried |
Catalina United Methodist Church Memorial Garden Tucson, Pima County, AZ | Catalina United Methodist Church Memorial Garden Tucson, Pima County, Arizona | |
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Based |
Watton | Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Clay Hackman was my uncle, my mother's brother. During WWII, when he was stationed in England and I was 6, he sent me a Christmas package that included four photos I still have in my childhood album. One is of him holding a Leica and smiling broadly; one is of Big Ben and Parliament. They are among my childhood treasures.
Another is a memory my mother shared. Before he left for the war, he told my grandparents, his parents, that he would fly over their farm in Lancaster County, PA, at a specific time, and to be outside waving a sheet. They did just that, and after the plane flew away my grandmother threw herself on the ground and wept for her son, who was going off to war.
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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.
Aerial Intelligence for the 8th Air Force, pg 75 (photo) / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
