Name:
Donald D. McClure
Rank:
First Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-025898
Unit:
435th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group
Date of Death:
1944-06-19
State:
Colorado
Cemetery:
Normandy American Cemetery, France
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Comments:
Donald D. McClure entered military service in Colorado. He served in the 435th Fighter Squadron, 479th Fighter Group, as a First Lieutenant during World War II. He was Killed in Action on 19 June 1944 in a mid-air collision over the Atlantic Ocean, piloting P-38J #42-68189. 1Lt McClure was declared Missing in Action. His name is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France. His name is also listed on the Anglo-American Memorial in Saffron Walden, England, but his middle initial is B.
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