Name:
Clyde R. Custer
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-815093
Unit:
3rd Replacement and Training Squadron
Date of Death:
1944-07-04
State:
Maryland
Cemetery:
Saint Pauls' Cemetery, Accident, Maryland
Plot:
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Clyde R. Custer was born on January 7, 1919. He resided in Garrett County, Maryland prior to the war. Clyde served as a First Lieutenant and Pilot on B-26B #41-18072, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
On July 4, 1944, his crew failed to return from a short navigational flight out of Toome, North Ireland when their plane crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. All men aboard were killed. The crew was buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and their remains were exhumed and transferred. 1LT Custer is buried now in the Saint Pauls Cemetery, Accident, Garrett County, Maryland, USA.
Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.americanairmuseum.com