Clyde R Custer
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland in B-26B 41-18072 when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. Killed non Operational (KNO).
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Unit
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Other
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center
- Service Numbers: 12139370 / O-762712
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier / Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center
- Service Numbers: 32159746
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center
- Service Numbers: 12188487
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
- Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Lisnabreeny
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Maryland, USA | 7 January 1919 | Son of Thomas S Custer. |
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Enlisted |
Baltimore, MD, USA | 3 October 1941 | |
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Died |
Toome, Antrim BT41, UK | 4 July 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland in B-26B 41-18072 when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. Killed non Operational (KNO). |
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Buried |
Lisnabreeny American Military Cemetery | 5 July 1944 | Interred Lisnabreeny cemetery. |
| Accident, MD 21520, USA | |||
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Other Based |
Lough Neagh, United Kingdom | 4 July 1944 | Assigned to 3rd 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center, 8AF USAAF. |
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Buried |
Accident, MD 21520, USA | Re-Interred Saint Pauls Cemetery Accident Garrett County Maryland, USA |
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Sources
Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. IV by Bishop & Hey, p.29, MACR 15113 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia