Claude Creath Moore

Military

Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Landing accident, RAF Watton, in Mosquito RG113 6-Apr-45 RTD.

Shot down in Mosquito NS792, by Free French Airforce P-51 Mustang on Graypea (chaff drop) mission to Germany 9-Apr-45. Wounded in Action (WIA). Transferred to Det. Pnts. Of 7th Army.



Awards: AM (3OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 491st Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15302090 / O-705419
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 654th Bomb Squadron

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Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Des Moines, IA 15 March 1916 Son of Mary Dille Moore.

Enlisted

Kansas City, KS 13 November 1943 Kansas City, Kansas

Other

Discharged USAAF

20 October 1946 Honourable discharge.

Died

Topeka, KS 15 June 2003

Buried

Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, KS 19 June 2003 Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas

Based

Watton Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

Draft registration

Kansas City, KS Employed by Fox Midwest Theatres, Kansas City.

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Shiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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Sources

Combat Chronology, Unit History; Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia