Clifford Cobb Sherman
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 124 - First Lieutenant Clifford C. Sherman, pilot with the 38th Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lt. Clifford...
26-May-44 - Joined the 38th Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group. Credited with destroying five enemy airplanes.
In Jul-44 awarded the Air Medal, to which was added an Oak Leaf Cluster in Sep-44.
Killed while testing P-51D 44-14664 when it suffered mechanical failure and went into a dive. (1-Nov-44)
Awards: DFC, AM (4OLC), EAME (1 x Battle Star).
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 55th Fighter Group 38th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bures / RAF Wormingford / RFC Wormingford / USAAF Station 159 / Wormingford Landing Ground
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
West Mansfield, MA | 23 August 1916 | Son of John Leland and Electra (Cobb) Sherman. |
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Other Marriage |
San Leandro, CA | 31 December 1943 | Married Ellen Karo-line Mickelsen of Oakland, California. |
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Based |
Wormingford | 26 May 1944 - 25 October 1944 | Assigned to 38FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Other Transferred |
Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, California | 25 October 1944 - 1 November 1944 | Transferred to 70th Replacement Depot. |
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Died |
Gazeley, Suffolk County, UK | 1 November 1944 | |
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Buried |
Golden Gate National Cemetery San Bruno, San Mateo County, CA | 28 September 1948 | Golden Gate National Cemetery San Bruno, San Mateo County, California |
Revisions
Double Nickel-Double Trouble / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
