Richard F Clounch
Military
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Richard F Clounch, here a Pilot Sergeant with the RCAF.
Trained with RCAF and then flew with RCAF in UK, transferred to USAAF. Assigned 8th WRS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Whilst piloting Mosquito NS558, struck barrage balloon cable during landing at Grave's End. Died non Battle (DNB)
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Mosquito
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Brookwood American Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, UK
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Dallas, TX | 27 June 1922 | Son of Roy Druery and Birdye [Green] Clounch. |
Enlisted |
Dallas, TX | 1 September 1943 | Transferred to USAAF, exchanging pilot Sgt for T/Sgt, later promoted to Flight Officer. |
Died |
Grave's End, UK | 21 June 1944 | Whilst piloting Mosquito NS558, struck barrage balloon cable during landing at Grave's End. DNB |
Buried |
Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial | 22 June 1944 | Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial Brookwood, Surrey, UK |
Buried |
Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, TX | Re-Interred Laurel Land Memorial Park Dallas, Dallas County, Texas | |
Enlisted |
Windsor, Ontario, Canada | Enlisted RCAF, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. | |
Other Pilot training |
Aulmer, Ontario | Completed flight training awarded wings, Aulmer, Ontario. Pilot Sgt RCAF. |
Revisions
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Sources
Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.
ContributorAAM
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The 25th Bomb Group Book (rcn) in World War II by Norman Malayney