Clifton James Stewart

Military

Assigned to 764BS, 461BG, 15AF USAAF. Gerald R Smith crew. Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 42-52025 17-Dec-44; Mauled by fighters, #3 engine on fire, oxygen system shot out, A/C abandoned. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 10680



Awards: POW, PH, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A B-24 Liberator of the 461st Bomb Group, 15th Air Force drops supplies over a Prisoner of War camp in Austria, May 1945. Handwritten caption on reverse: '9 May 1945, Last 'combat' mission of 461st BG to British POW camp near Villack, Austria. #33 flown by Lt John Stegman- 765th BS.'

461st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-52025

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Arsenic and Lace
  • Unit: 461st Bomb Group 765th Bomb Squadron

Places

Dulag Luft 12

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.

Stalag Luft I

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Torretta

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Cerignola #3

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Massachusetts, USA 6 September 1924 Son of Clifton S and Pearl L Stewart.

Enlisted

Boston, MA 10 October 1942 Boston, Massachusetts

Other

Baled out POW

Muglitz, Germany 17 December 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Odertal oil refinery in B-24 42-52025 17-Dec-44; Mauled by fighters, #3 engine on fire, oxygen system shot out, A/C abandoned. POW MACR 10680

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Barth, Germany 17 December 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.

Other

Discharged USAAF

5 October 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Plymouth, MA 10 January 1992

Buried/ Commemorated

Massachusetts National Cemetery Bourne, Barnstable County, MA 14 January 1992 Massachusetts National Cemetery Bourne, Barnstable County, MA

Based

Torretta 17 December 1944 Assigned to 764BS, 461BG, 15AF USAAF.

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