Clifford R Oliver

Military

Killed in Action (KIA) 26-Feb-43 in B-24D 41-23820, 480th ASG/1st ASS while serving as Co-Pilot. The aircraft failed to return from an anti-shipping patrol over the Bay of Biscay. Empty dingies were found 75 miles northwest of Brest/ Obit Stolle of 8/JG2 in FW 190 claimed the loss. The anti submarine squadron was under administrative control of the 8th and operational control of RAF coastal command.



Air Medal, Purple Heart

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 480th Anti-Submarine Group 1st Anti-Submarine Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

English Channel 26 February 1943 Killed when aircraft was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the sea 75 miles north-west of Brest, France

Born

Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Other

Commemorated

Saint-James, France Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Brittany American Cemetery.

Revisions

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Lee Cunningham 22-Jun-2015. Added loss date, AC model and Unit associations to Summary Biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 22-Jun-2015. Added decorations and Commemorated event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) records. Added KIA event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces", Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th and 9th AF Vol.1 by Bishop and Hey, p.81, WWII Memorial web site