Clayton E Child
Military
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UPL 31131
42-102645 pictured at top of this photo.
From my family records (Grandmother). Happy to provide full set of photos and documents 1-678-906-6166 John Clarke
Flight Officer Clayton Child was Pilot of B-17 #42-102645, shot down by fighters and force-landed at Zegelsem, Belgium on 9 August 1944. Prisoner of War (POW).
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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: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 365th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 9 August 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Known as: Zegelsem, Belgium
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Maine, United States | 18 April 1921 | |
Enlisted |
Portland, Maine, United States | 5 September 1942 | as a Private in the Air Corps |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Sagan, Poland | 9 August 1944 - 29 April 1945 | Captured and interned at Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan, Poland. Force-marched from there to Stalag 7A Moosburg, germany. Liberated there 29 April 1945 by US troops. NARA WWII POW records : "Returned to Military control 11 March 1946."... |
Died |
Peru, Oxford County, Maine, United States | 30 August 2000 | |
Oxford County, Maine, United States | |||
Buried |
Demeritt Cemetery, Peru, Maine, United States |
Revisions
ContributorED-BB
Changes
Sources
Corrected date in BIO, POW instead of EVD and added Service numbers, etc
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8067 / MACR8067 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database