William Dunwoody
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Clarence J Burnett
Military
Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ash, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM (3 OLC), PH.
Service
People
Units served with
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8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ... -
95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
336th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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44-8604 Section Eight
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Lincoln 31/10/44; Grenier 15/12/44; Dow Fd 15/12/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-X] Horham 17/12/44;with Bill Dunwoody force landed B-53 Merville Afd, Bel. 19/3/45; battle damaged Holzwickede 23/3/45 with Bill Dunwoody, Co-pilot: M. Burrows,...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Duval County, FL, USA | 1920 |
| Enlisted | Florida, USA | 5 August 1939 |
| Lived in | Florida, USA | 1942 |
| Based | Horham | 1944 – 23 March 1945 |
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Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | English Channel | 23 March 1945 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ash, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA). |
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| Buried | April 1945 | |
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Tablets of the missing |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 November 2016 16:55:04 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/page/83237841_clarence_j%20burnett/details/ |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:06:18 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Combat Sup / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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