Clarence L Campbell
MilitaryClassified 4-F by his local draft board, T/Sgt. Clarence I Campbell made 12 attempts to enlist in the American Army and one in the Canadian Army before he was finally accepted, to stack up the following record: He flew the four missions with the Eighth Air Force in the fall of 1942, when fighter escort was unheard of. He has received confirmed credit for destroying two Messerschmitt 109s. Seventy nine missions over Germany, France, during which 20 member
of his various crews were killed. Wears Distinguished Unit Citation, with one cluster. Air Medal with 14 clusters and the ETO ribbon with six bronze battle stars.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Benefield
Revisions
Biographical detail from:
- An original copy of the 401st Bomb Group unit history in IWM’s Roger Freeman Collection, printed in 1946. (Transcribed at https://archive.org/stream/PictorialRecordofthe401stBombGroup-nsia/Pict…)
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2326