Bascom Orlando Clifton

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down by flak on return from mission to Frankfurt and probably crashed in the North Sea or Channel on 4 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-31036 'Nobody's Baby. ' Killed in Action (KIA).



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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-31036

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Nobody's Baby
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Killed in action

Germany 4 February 1944

Born

Montgomery, Alabama

Buried

Revisions

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Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- MACR 2285 ;
- Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2285, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces,

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