Claude
Maximillian “Mac”
Clements
October
22, 1922 – April 10,
1945
Sergeant – U. S.
Army Air Corps
8th.
Air Force, 453rd.
Bombardment Group
Claude
Clements
was born on 22 October 1922 in
Saxe, Charlotte Co., VA., the son of Felix Woodson and Annie
Colgate
Clements. He enlisted in the National Guard on 16 September
1940,
at Lynchburg,
Virginia, and was assigned to the Coast Artillery Group, a mine laying
operation.
He was later assigned to the 453rd. Bombardment Group, attached to the
8th. Air Force, operating in the European Theater as a Top Turret
Gunner. He was
based in England. His aircraft crashed returning from
a mission over Baden-Wurttenburg, Germany, and his body found in a
field near the wreckage. The
following is written in
the "Individual Casualty Questionnaire File No. 13897 " at debriefing
" Where was he when last seen? " We found his body in a
nearby
field."
Squadron
Patch for the 453rd. Bomb Squadron (Heavy)
- Turret Gunner Insigna
Patch
for the 8th. Air Force
B-24
Liberator (Heavy)
Date
Loss, Type, serial, Name, Pilot, Crashplace,
Country-Code
450410,
B-24, 42-51089, Star Eyes, Powell Jr, Wittenberge, D
