Clarence Cecil Daw

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-29336.jpeg UPL 29336 Clarence C Daw

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Object Number - UPL 29336 - Clarence C Daw

Clarence Daw was one of five Daw brothers from Pensacola, Florida to enlist during WWII. He flew with Jesse L. McMains' crew on missions from England. Hit by flak and later by fighters after falling out of formation on a mission to Genshagen near Berlin on 6 March 1944, B-24H #42-52306 crashed near Uelzen, East of Münster, Germany. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'

458th Bomb Group

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

People

Robert Lee Dean

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39076882 at enlistment, then O-682078
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

William Robert Doherty

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17072476 at enlistment, then O-809105
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Jess Joe Gomez

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37345011
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Harvey Laverne Hoffstot

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33420062
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Glenn Wilson Hunter

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19114107
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Aircraft

42-52306

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 753rd Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida 20 September 1921

Enlisted

8 October 1942 Fort McClellan, Alabama

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

6 March 1944 in the loss of B-24H #42-52306

Buried

6847 W Fairfield Dr, Pensacola, FL 32506, USA At Union Hill Cemetery

Revisions

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ContributorED-BB
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Sources

MACR 3349
NARA WWII Enlistment records

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Contributorteri322
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Teri (Daw) Suiter

Date
ContributorLucy May
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Correspondence with Clarence Daw's great niece, Teri.

NARA enlistment record: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=2&cat=all&tf…

Date
ContributorLucy May
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https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11264839

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3349 / MACR 3349, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 274 of the book LIBERAORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 &

href="http://www.458bg.com/crew29mcmains.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crew29mcmains.htm> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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