Cyril Dorsey Conklin
MilitaryAssigned to 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) ramrod to Ludwigshaven in P-51B 42-106640. Went missing in melee with Me109's. Crashed 20 Miles SW Strasbourg at Luxeuil. 27-May-44 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5111.
Awards: AM, PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Post War: Employed in the oil industry, also worked for Helene Curtis, retiring in 1986.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 357th Fighter Group 364th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Theberton/Saxmundham
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Krebs, OK 74501, USA | 6 March 1923 | Son of Charles D and Esther B [McGinnis] Conklin. |
Enlisted |
Oklahoma City, OK, USA | 22 January 1941 | |
Based |
Leiston | 28 April 1944 - 27 May 1944 | Assigned to 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 27 May 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
Other Baled out |
70300 Luxeuil-les-Bains, France | 27 May 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Ramrod to Ludwigshaven in P-51B 42-106640. Went missing in melee with Me109s. Crashed 20 Miles SW Strasbourg at Luxeuil. 27-May-44 POW. MACR 5111. |
Other Promotion |
8 June 1944 | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. | |
Died |
Peoria, IL, USA | 6 March 1999 | |
Buried |
705 S Washington St, Naperville, IL 60540, USA | 9 March 1999 | Naperville Cemetery Naperville, DuPage County, IL |
Based |
Goxhill | 28 April 1944 | Assigned to 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 364FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Pittsburg County, OK, USA |
Revisions
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5111 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database