Carl E Cleland
MilitaryJoined Sqd 8/3/42.
ETO/Flight Echelon 10/2/42.
DS/Bengahzi 6/26/43.
Took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1 August 1943, flying in B-24 Liberator 41-23699.
Completed tour 8/22/43.
Returned to base 8/22/43.
Returned to ZOI 8/24/43.
Pilot: Phillips.
Staff Sergeant Cleland served with the 331st Combat Crew Training Squadron aboard B-24E
Liberator 42-7066.He was one of eight airmen killed when the four-motored bomber crashed, approximately twenty-five miles northeast of the Casper Army Air Base, Wyoming, during a training flight.
The other airmen killed were:
Capt. Charles W Bley Instr. pilot
2nd Lt. Eugene E Ravera
2nd Lt. John A Williams
Sgt. Vernon E Arne
Sgt. George P Peterson
Sgt. Duane T Zetah
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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
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 1 August 1943
- Official Description:
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Died |
2 March 1944 | ||
Born |
Sunbury, OH, USA |
Revisions
Webb Todd; History of the 68th Bomb Squadron 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs, pg 20
/Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia