John T Clay

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-21406.jpeg UPL 21406 “Quivering Box” - # 42-100315 (photo via Navigator Glenn W. Hoffman’s family)

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Object Number - UPL 21406 - “Quivering Box” - # 42-100315 (photo via Navigator Glenn W. Hoffman’s family)

John Clay was Tail Gunner on B-24 #42-100315 "Quivering Box" of 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. Wounded in the head, he died the same day in hospital and was buried in a military cemetery in Berg-op-Zoon, The Netherlands. His name is on the memorial to War Dead in the City Park, in Mc Kenzie, Carroll County, Tennessee.



Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by flak and crashed at Tholen in B-24 Quivering Box #42100315

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Units served with

A flight of B-24 Liberators of the 446th Bomb Group fly in formation above the clouds.

446th Bomb Group

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

People

Calvin T Ballard

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18049224 & O-434031
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

John Edward Hand

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-817328
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Glenn Wilbur Hoffman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16077659 and O-741175
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Euylse Earl Jackson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14161707
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

William Kopczynski

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32479033
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Aircraft

42-100315

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Quivering Box
  • Unit: 446th Bomb Group 705th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Aerial photograph of Bungay (Flixton) airfield, looking south, the technical site- with T2 hangar- and control tower are to the right, where the main airfield gate is also situated, 16 October 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/930. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Bungay

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Flixton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States 10 January 1942

Other

Wounded In Action

near Tholen, The Netherlands 21 July 1944 on board B-24 #42-100315 "Quivering Box" of 446th Bomb Group / 705th Bomb Squadron on the 21 July 1944 mission to Munich, Germany. The Liberator was hit by Flak on return from the mission and John Clay was wounded in the head. Landing in parachute, he was immediately captured.

Other

Died of Wounds (DOW)

near Berg-op-Zoon, The Netherlands 21 July 1944 in a German Naval hospital where he was next to Radio Operator William Kopczynski

Buried

Berg-op-Zoom, The Netherlands 22 July 1944 in a military cemetery in Berg-op-Zoon

Born

Tennessee, United States the son of Hadden H. and Kathleen L. Clay
Trezevant, Tennessee, United States

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Sources

MACR 7250
NARA WWII Enlistment records
US 1940 Census

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7250 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Object number: UPL 21406 - “Quivering Box” - # 42-100315 (photo via Navigator...