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Cleon Dale Sires

Military

media-5560.jpeg UPL 5560 Cleon Dale Sires

Military records.

Object Number - UPL 5560 - Cleon Dale Sires

Assigned to 612BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF. 21 x combat missions.

Awards: AM (2OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

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

The insignia of the 612th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group.

612th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

Harry William Ahlers

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 12120324 / O-835109
Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

A B-17G Flying Fortress (LN-E, serial number 42-31981) of the 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group that has crash-landed at Honington. Official caption on image: "896 (44). WPU - 4.28.44. Honington. B-17G - 42-31981. FA-FSAD."

42-31981

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

43-38541

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Diabolical Angel
Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

Places

Bomber crews from the 401st Bomb Group look over P-51 Mustang, FT-T, serial number 43-12172, of the 353rd Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, at Deenethorpe airfield. One of their B-17 Flying Fortresses is in the background. Printed caption on reverse of print: '...401st Bomb Group look over a North American P-51 Mustang at an 8th Air Force base in England, 27 December 1943.'

Deenethorpe

Site type: Airfield
Known as: Benefield

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	New Albin, IA, USA	6 November 1924	Son of James Grant and Sarah Jane [Hahn] Sires.
Enlisted	Camp Dodge, Herrold, IA	20 August 1943	Camp Dodge, Herrold, Iowa
Died	Lansing, IA, USA	6 August 2001
Enlisted
Based	Deenethorpe		Assigned to 612BS, 401BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

Date6 Nov 2021 20:04:19

ContributorAl_Skiff

Changes

Sources

https://www.fold3.com/record/64273768/cleon-d-sires-social-security-dea…
https://www.fold3.com/record/89997247/cleon-d-sires-wwii-army-enlistmen…
https://www.fold3.com/record/714541682/sires-cleon-d-us-veterans-graves…
http://401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1378
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125234985/cleon-dale-sires

Date21 Oct 2014 20:05:15

ContributorDeeply_Rooted

Changes

Sources

Family records, birth records and death records.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:06:26

ContributorAAM

Changes

Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=1378

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