Charles Robert Clark
Military
National Archives
Object Number - UPL 74029 - MACR Page 9 for Charles Robert Clark
Assigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Ended Tour of Duty (ETD). Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing mission to Beauvais in P-47 42-26314, hit by flak bombing marshaling yard crashed near 15km SE of Dieppe 2-Aug-44 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7718.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: "Duckpond"
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Based |
21 January 1943 - 2 August 1944 | Assigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. | |
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Other End Tour of Duty (ETD) |
19 April 1944 | Ended Tour of Duty (ETD). | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
2 August 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. | |
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Other Baled out |
2 August 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing mission to Beauvais in P-47 42-26314, hit by flak bombing marshaling yard crashed near 15km SE of Dieppe 2-Aug-44 POW MACR 7718. | |
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Born |
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Other Promotion |
Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. | ||
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Other Promotion |
Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. | ||
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Other Promotion |
Promoted to Captain. |
Revisions
Combined two entries for Charles Clark. This entry now includes information from the following source:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / EAGLES OF DUXFORD, The 78th Fighter Group in WW2 by Fry, p132 - middle initial listed as 'C' rather than 'R'.
ww2info website for POW information: http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=directory&rec=53192
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 7718 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
