Clarence B Herrmann

Military
media-15414.jpeg UPL 15414 On the outside wall of Tesco's at Sudbury.

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Photo taken 10 July 2013, Gary Atkins

Object Number - UPL 15414 - On the outside wall of Tesco's at Sudbury.

Injured when B-17 #43-38137 crashed on takeoff at Woodhall Farm, Sudbury on 15 October 1944. He was the only one of his crew to survive.

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 835th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

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Added a "-" to the A/C type in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.

Added a "O-" to the S/N to aid clarity & consistency.

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486th roster / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories, Ian McLachlan & Russell J Zorn, ©1991, 2012

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / WWW.486th.org roster

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