Clifford Kalick Coleman

Military

Used the British 'Mosquito' airplane for night air photography. Used K24 and K36 10'x10' cameras with 12 magnesium flash bombs. Flew at night, dropped flash bombs which actuated photo-electric cells on cameras. Photos had to be at GHQ in London by 4:30 AM very next morning.



EAME w/ 6 stars/ DFC

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

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

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Born

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 30 June 1922

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