1st Lt. Robert Leonard McClure
Born: 5 January 1908
Parents: Leonard H. McClure & Daisy M. Valliette-McClure
– father passed away in 1916
– Guardian: Mrs. A. H. Valliette
Siblings: 1 sister
Home:
– 401 South Ninth Avenue, Maywood, Illinois
Education:
– Irving School
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1926
– The University of Illinois
– attended for two years
Employment: American Can Company – Chicago, Illinois
Selective Service Registration: 16 October 1940
Contact Person: Emily Frazier Brown McClure – wife
Enlisted:
– early 1942 – while living in Ohio
Serial Number: 0-726920
Training:
– Unknown
Unit: 400th Bomb Squadron, 90th Bomb Group (Heavy) – “The Jolly Rogers”
– flew B-24D – Liberators
Stationed:
– Hawaii – left 31 October 1942
– Iron Range Airfield, North Queensland, Australia – 13 November 1942 – 22 March 1943
– Iron Range, Australia – 4 November 1942
– Port Moseby, New Guinea – 10 February 1943
– Dobodura, New Guinea – December 1943
– Nadzab, New Guinea – 23 February 1944
– Biak – 12 August 1944
Bombing Missions:
– Rabaul
– Southwest Pacific
Killed in Action:
– 19 December 1944
Memorial:
– Tablets of the Missing – American Military Cemetery – Manila, Philippine Islands
Declared Dead: 19 December 1945
Medals: Purple Heart
