Clarence M Coveney

Military

Shot down by fighters and crashed N of Freiburg/Breisgau, GR on 18 Mar 1944 in B-24J #42-100117. Prisoner of War (POW). Spent 13 months in Stalag-17b.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 392nd Bomb Group.

392nd Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-100117

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Delayed Actions
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 579th Bomb Squadron

Places

Stalag XVII-B

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Woodside, New York 1 December 1918

Died

13 December 1979

Buried

Crooked Creek, Pennsylvania

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3329, Robert Coveney (son), Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces