Clarence Harry Bousfield
MilitaryAssigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 10ADG, 9AF USAAF.
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME, Occupation.
Post War: He returned to Sioux Falls, where he built four transmitter towers and studios for KIHO, now KNWC, and was remote control engineer for KSOO. He broadcast Lutheran Vespers at Eastside Lutheran Church for three years. For a brief time he was co-owner of Ace Neon Signs and then worked for the city of Sioux Falls for 30 years in the parking meter department. He retired in 1983.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Supply
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Peaches
- Unit: 352nd Fighter Group 357th Fighter Group 370th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron 364th Fighter Squadron 487th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Parker, SD 57053, USA | 25 August 1922 | Son of Elmer and Jessie [Stellmacher] Bousfield. |
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Enlisted |
Vermillion, SD 57069, USA | 14 September 1942 | |
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Other Assigned |
Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK | 18 April 1945 - 18 September 1945 | Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Based |
18 September 1945 | Transferred to 10ADG, 9AF USAAF. | |
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Died |
Sioux Falls, SD, USA | 16 December 1983 | |
| Centerville, SD 57014, USA | |||
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Buried |
Davis, SD 57021, USA | Turner County First Presbyterian Church Cemetery Davis Turner County South Dakota, USA. |
Revisions
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15939259
'1000 Destroyed' by Capt. Grover C. Hall, Jr. / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia