Cecil M Clore
Military ROLL OF HONOURPilot, Clore crew. "B" Flight Commander. 381st BG, 534th BS, 8th AF. Killed in Action (KIA). Crashed shortly after TO near Hedingham on mission #56 to Kiel, Germany in B-17G #42-31278 'Mix Master'. Originally buried with the entire crew at Cambridge AMC. This was Lt. Clore's, and most of the crew's, 25th mission.
Lt. Clore was killed in action as a result of an airplane crash, on January 4, 1944, at Castle Hedingham, England. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in February 1942, and received his pilot training at Santa Ana, Hemet and Bakersfield in California, graduating from advance training at Douglas, Arizona, February 6, 1943, where he received his wings and commission. He was further trained as pilot for a B-17 bomber at Blythe, California, Walla Walla, Washington and Madras, Oregon. He had been overseas since July 1943.
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- Date: 6 September 1943
- Date: 3 September 1943
- Date: 31 August 1943
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
4 January 1944 | ||
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6 January 1944 |
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381st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999, Roll of Honor, 8th AF Losses / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia