Clarence Melvin Krammes

Military

Completed 35 missions from 27-Aug-44 to 06-Apr-45. Mission #5 Market Garden support, crash landed at Swingfield, UK & received slight facial wounds. Mission #11 Misburg aborted, entire squadron shot down. Mission #22 Magdeburg, runaway prop, Bombardier and tail gunner bailed out. Returned to base.



AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH/ Certificate of Valor

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Units served with

A Pathfinder B-24 Liberator (V2-P+, serial number 42-51691) of the 491st Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '491 BG supplying troops at Arnhem, Sept 1944.'

491st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-95341

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 491st Bomb Group

Events

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Born

Rock, Pennsylvania 10 April 1922

Revisions

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MACR 12237

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self