Foy Rae Clingman
Military ROLL OF HONOURAdded photo of Foy R Clingman per info at Netherlands American cemetery.
Assigned to 527BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Bernburg in B-17 42-29829 'Sons of Satan' 22-Feb-44; shot down by fighters and crashed near Gottingen shortly after leaving the target at Halberstadt, Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2870
Awards: AM (OLC), PH.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Sons of Satan
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Walters, OK | 22 June 1921 | Son of Elva Reed, Bowia Texas. |
Enlisted |
Camp Crowder, Neosho, MO | 21 April 1942 | Camp Crowder, Neosho, Missouri |
Died |
Gottingen, Germany | 22 February 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Bernburg in B-17 42-29829 'Sons of Satan' 22-Feb-44; Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 2870 |
Buried |
Netherlands American Cemetery | Re-Interred Netherlands American Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands Plot L Row 6 Grave 7 | |
Based Killed in Action (KIA) |
Kimbolton | 22 February 1944 | Assigned to 527BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
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https://www.fold3.com/image/310763813
https://www.fold3.com/image/636606317
https://www.fold3.com/record/84602066/foy-r-clingman-wwii-army-enlistme…
https://www.fold3.com/record/529875925/foy-r-clingman-american-battle-m…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56297643/foy-ray-clingman
Added S/N per MACR 2870 at Fold3.com.
SOURCE: https://www.fold3.com/image/28744593
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2870 / MACR 2870, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database