Cletus T Ormsby

Military

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-61 Black Widow
  • Unit: 362nd Fighter Group

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Aerial Victory

near Libramont, France 30 December 1944 1 - JU 188 flying P-61 42-5574 w/David Howerton

Died

near Darmstadt, Germany 24 March 1945 Shot down by a flak shell that burst in the crew nacelle. Radar Operator, though badly injured was able to bail out. Ormsby was KIA.

Buried

Buried at Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avoid (Moselle) France. Plot D Row 27 Grave 41
Osage, Iowa

Born

Varner, Missouri

Other

Aerial Victory

1-Bf 110 w/David Howerton

Other

Aerial Victory

1 - Do 217 w/David Howerton

Revisions

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added connection

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https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/81305391:6061?indiv=1…
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=21095
"Northrop's Night Hunter - P-61 Black Widow" - Jeff Koln, page 152
"P-61 Black Widow Units of World War 2" - Warren Thompson, page 86

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Information courtesy of Astrid van Erp, Fields of Honour database at http://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/