Joseph C Clement

Military
media-44185.jpeg UPL 44185 A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group, with their B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed Lucky Strike.

Front row: Irving Moore, March Schneider, Wallace Chappell, Forrest Lane
Back row: Paul Ellis, Raplph Hooper, William Provonsha, Joseph Clement, Edmond Connors, Benjamin Dranhoff

PK Ellis’s grandson

Object Number - UPL 44185 - A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group, with their B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed Lucky Strike. Front row: Irving Moore, March Schneider, Wallace...

September 1943 - January 1944. September 1, 1943, arrived in Prestwick with poor visablity. Landed on beach near Troon with no injuries to crew in B17#42-30801 piloted by Irving Moore.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.

381st Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-29923

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pappy's Hellions III / Lucky Strike
  • Unit: 2nd Strategic Air Depot 305th Bomb Group 381st Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron 532nd Bomb Squadron

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Sources

381st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p. 260 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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Object number: UPL 44185 - A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group, with their...