Clinton Parr
Military | Captain | Pilot | 401st Bomb Group
Assigned to 615BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. 31 x missions. Ended Tour Duty (ETD).
Awards: AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
John Lee Allen
Military
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Captain Parr and crew of the 613th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, in front of a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" at an 8th Air Force base in England, 28 August 1944. Rear L-R: Capt Clinton J Parr, 1Lt Charles H Blevins, 1Lt Gerald E Hansen, 1Lt John U Ridley Jr. Front L-R: S/Sgt James E Holland, S/Sgt Arthur "Art" Terhorst, T/Sgt John L Allen, S/Sgt George C Daniels, S/Sgt Louis A Perez.
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Lt. Parr and crew (Crew 15) of the 615th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group., at an 8th Air Force Base In England, 31 August 1944. Rear L-R: Gerald E Hansen, Charles H Blevins, Clinton J Parr, Unkn, John U Ridley. Front L-R: John L Allen, Arthur A Terhorst, George C Daniels, Louis A Perez, James E Holland, Emerson E Bossley.
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T/Sgt John L Allen :- air medal award card. 401BG.
Assigned to 615BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. 31 x missions. Ended Tour Duty (ETD).
Awards: AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
Units served with
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401st Bomb Group
Group
The 401st Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Deenethorpe, Northamptonshire, from November 1943 to June 1945. Starting their missions at that time meant the focus was very much on the coming invasion attempt of France planned for the following... -
615th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-31485 Old Ironsides
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 11/10/43; Gr Island 21/11/43; La Guardia 29/11/43; New York 1/12/43; Presque Is 2/12/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-X] Deenethorpe 6/1/44; RAF Stornaway 5/4/44, ret grp 6/4/44; Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 9/6/45; Syracuse 10/6... -
42-37843 'Dry Run'
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 19/9/43; Gt Falls 25/9/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-H] Deenethorpe 2/11/43; Missing in Action French A/flds 14/6/44 with Russell Schroeder (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bill Mountain, Navigator: Erroll Rice, Bombardier: Gene... -
42-37981 Belle of the Barbary Coast
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 3/11/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-P] Deenethorpe 3/12/43; Missing in Action Leipzig 7/7/44 with Jim Neill, Co-pilot: Elbert Hammond, Navigator: Alby Roddy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Moore, Radio... -
42-97073
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Alexandra 12/2/44; Presque Is 4/3/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-N] Deenethorpe 23/3/44; Missing in Action Dessau 28/5/44 with Vince Kaminski, Bombardier: Dee Black, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jack Agee, Radio Operator... -
42-97600
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 3/1/44; Langley 26/1/44; Grenier 25/2/44; Assigned 91BG Bassingbourn 27/4/44; transferred 351BG [ -Y] Polebrook 14/6/44; 614BS/401BG [IW-Y] Deenethorpe 20/8/44; 613BS [IN-Y]. ... -
42-97947
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 12/4/44; 1SAG Langley 16/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 351BG Polebrook 8/7/44; transferred 612BS/401BG [SC-U] Deenethorpe 7/8/44; 613BS; transferred 305BG Chelveston 20/8/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46. -
43-37551
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-L] Deenethorpe 1/6/44; 615BS [IY-L]; Missing in Action Berlin 28/3/45 with Joe McCullough, Norman Schock, John Maxwell, Pascal Santora, Nick Loris, Larry Genauer ...
Missions
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329
30 April 1944
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332
1 May 1944
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338
4 May 1944
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347
9 May 1944
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355
13 May 1944
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358
19 May 1944
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364
23 May 1944
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367
24 May 1944
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379
29 May 1944
Mission #2. The target was an aircraft assembly plant. Flak was exceedingly heavy. We were in the air 7-1/2 hours. -
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31 May 1944
Bombed the marshaling yards. Heavy flak but no hits.
Associated Place
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Deenethorpe
Military site : airfield
Deenethorpe was a base purpose-built for American heavy bombers, with the Class A regulation 2,000 and 1,400-yard runways. All the buildings on site,such as the accommodation and administrative blocks, were temporary. In December 1943, several local...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Kingsport, TN | 14 March 1924 |
| Enlisted | Fort Oglethorpe, GA | 31 January 1943 |
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia |
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| Based | Deenethorpe | March 1944 – September 1944 |
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Assigned to 615BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| End Tour Duty (ETD) | England, UK | September 1944 |
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Ended Tour Duty (ETD). |
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| Died | 12 September 1979 | |
| Buried | East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery Kingsport, Sullivan County, TN | |
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East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 08 December 2021 09:49:13 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, biography, awards and events |
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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/138675078 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 08 December 2021 02:22:36 | acbernstein1 | Changes to aircraft associations and mission associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 March 2018 13:58:14 | Al_Skiff | Changes to role, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:16:21 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=3025 |
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