CLYDE ERNEST TWEEDY ATTENDED SUCCESS SCHOOL AND PARIS HIGH SCHOOL. HE STAYED ON THE FARM FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND DID SOME CARPENTERING. ON DEC 26, 1939 HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AIR CORPS. HE WAS STATIONED AT RANTOUL, ILL, WHERE HE GRADUATED AS A MOTOR MECHANIC, RECEIVING A TECHNICAL SERGEANT RATING.
HE WAS ASSIGNED TO OVERSEAS DUTY DURING WWII, STARTING ON HIS FIRST MISSION ABROAD ON JUNE 4, 1942. THE HEAVILY LOADED BOMBER, TAKING OFF FROM HAMILTON FIELD, SACREMTO, CALIF CRASHED INTO A MOUNTAINSIDE, KILLING THE ENTIRE CREW. HE WAS BURIED IN VERMILLION CEMETERY ON JUNE 14, 1942.
HE WAS ASSIGNED TO OVERSEAS DUTY DURING WWII, STARTING ON HIS FIRST MISSION ABROAD ON JUNE 4, 1942. THE HEAVILY LOADED BOMBER, TAKING OFF FROM HAMILTON FIELD, SACREMTO, CALIF CRASHED INTO A MOUNTAINSIDE, KILLING THE ENTIRE CREW. HE WAS BURIED IN VERMILLION CEMETERY ON JUNE 14, 1942.
CLYDE ERNEST TWEEDY ATTENDED SUCCESS SCHOOL AND PARIS HIGH SCHOOL. HE STAYED ON THE FARM FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND DID SOME CARPENTERING. ON DEC 26, 1939 HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AIR CORPS. HE WAS STATIONED AT RANTOUL, ILL, WHERE HE GRADUATED AS A MOTOR MECHANIC, RECEIVING A TECHNICAL SERGEANT RATING.
HE WAS ASSIGNED TO OVERSEAS DUTY DURING WWII, STARTING ON HIS FIRST MISSION ABROAD ON JUNE 4, 1942. THE HEAVILY LOADED BOMBER, TAKING OFF FROM HAMILTON FIELD, SACREMTO, CALIF CRASHED INTO A MOUNTAINSIDE, KILLING THE ENTIRE CREW. HE WAS BURIED IN VERMILLION CEMETERY ON JUNE 14, 1942.
HE WAS ASSIGNED TO OVERSEAS DUTY DURING WWII, STARTING ON HIS FIRST MISSION ABROAD ON JUNE 4, 1942. THE HEAVILY LOADED BOMBER, TAKING OFF FROM HAMILTON FIELD, SACREMTO, CALIF CRASHED INTO A MOUNTAINSIDE, KILLING THE ENTIRE CREW. HE WAS BURIED IN VERMILLION CEMETERY ON JUNE 14, 1942.
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T/SGT., U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS
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