Name Vernon E CLARK Rank 2nd Lt
Number 0-736622 Date of Birth/Age 15 July 1916
Unit 96 Bomb Group, 337 Bomb Squadron, USAAF    
Aircraft B-17F-85-BO 42-30040 AW-A
'Wabbit Twacks III'		 Crew position Navigator
Based at Snetterton Heath, Norfolk, UK    
Target Schweinfurt, Germany Failed to return 14 October 1943
Escape Network Possum Line
Jade/Fitzroy Line		 Escape MGB pickup (operation FELICITATE II)
25-26 December 1943
Arrival home Falmouth, Cornwall, UK - 26 December 1943 References NARA:E&E/290
NARA:RG498/290/55/27/2 Box 58 - Awards' file - Bulart

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E&E/290

Members of crew

Pilot
0-421510
 1st Lt Robert H HARMESON PoW
Co-pilot
0-680382
 2nd Lt Charles M BAER MIA
Navigator
0-736622
 2nd Lt Vernon E CLARK NARA:E&E/290 - narrator
Bombardier
0-671236
 2nd Lt Charles P BRONNER NARA:E&E/292
Radio operator
37385779
 T/Sgt Tollie G BERRY PoW
Top turret gunner
32288613
 T/Sgt William B DUNNING NARA:E&E/296
Ball turret gunner
17035621
 S/Sgt Jay B JOLLEY PoW
Waist gunner
34038449
 S/Sgt William B HOWELL PoW
Waist gunner
39184861
 S/Sgt Lester W KNOPP NARA:E&E/1526
Tail gunner
33256368
 S/Sgt Robert F HENRY PoW

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