Claude Taylor Anderson

Military

95th Bomb Group, 412th Bomb Squadron April 44 to September 44, 35 missions with the Roy Gielen crew and then with the Lyle Scott crew. Returned to the states to train new crews, then went inactive while he returned to college and later medical school. He was one of the first Rhodes Scholars chosen under the WWII Veteran criteria. Retired from the Air Force as a full Colonel with 30 years.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Griffin "Griff" Mumford of the 95th Bomb Group with a jeep, August 1944. Image via Albert Keeler, 95th Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: 'Lt Col Griff Mumford, Command pilot First B-17 over Berlin.'

Harry Griffin Mumford

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 3rd Air Division 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-413481
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Air Executive; Director of Operations

Lyle W Scott

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
Lt. Ernest Anders Erickson receives the Distinguished Flying Cross

Karl A Truesdell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron Headquarters (95th Bomb Group)
  • Service Numbers: O-19258
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Horace Otis Turner

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-757575
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier; Navigator

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Added a S/N from records at the 95th BG website.

https://95thbgdb.com/person/109

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Add Army of Occupation Medal

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Correcting longevity clusters

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Adding awards

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Commanders from the Unit histories

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Added from my dad's photo album receiving his DFC from Col. Truesdell

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This is a picture I took of the display box I created for my dad's military career.

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This is a photo from my father's photo album I am adding to his entry.

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Col. Claude Taylor Anderson, MD (USAF Ret.) was my father. I edited his personal details and added some associations from his combat history.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php