Clyde Ray Simmons

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media-51065.jpeg UPL 51065 1st. Lt. Clyde Ray Simmons.

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Object Number - UPL 51065 - 1st. Lt. Clyde Ray Simmons.

Killed when his aircraft was in a mid air collision with B-17 44-38859, on 26 April 1945.



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Units served with

The insignia of the 351st Bomb Group.

351st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
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.

486th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

44-38859

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

44-8687

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 834th 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).

Sudbury

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Killed in Action

Lutton Marsh, Spalding, Lincolnshire PE12, UK 26 April 1945

Revisions

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ContributorEmily
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Sources

Brought together information from duplicate records to include information drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / WWW.486th.org roster/ www.351st.org/ken.harbour/

Further information about Simmons, including his middle name, provided by researcher Anne Grimshaw

Date
Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
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Sources

Details added from:
http://www.486th.org/Personnel/S2.htm;
http://www.bcar.org.uk/1945-incident-logs

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

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

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Object number: UPL 51065 - 1st. Lt. Clyde Ray Simmons.