Richard F Clounch

Military
media-43418.jpeg UPL 43418 Richard F Clounch, here a Pilot Sergeant with the RCAF.

Object Number - UPL 43418 - 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

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

Places

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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Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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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

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