DUANE CLAPHAM, JR., First Lieutenant, U. S. Army Air Corps,
Home address: Norman, Cleveland County, OK. Mrs. J. C. Clapham,Mother, 490 Elm Ave., Norman. Born January 23, 1916. Enlisted August 12, 1939. Decoration: Meritorious Medal of the Army,Navy and Air forces, First Grade, A Class, received posthumously from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China for distinguished service. Graduated 1938, University of Oklahoma ; Second Lieutenant in Reserve Officers Training Corps. Active duty at Fort Sill ;entered U. S. Army Air Corps, and received wings at Kelly Field,
May, 1940 ; selected in January, 1941, to attend high stratospheric flying school, Dayton, Ohio, and was one of five best in this school;sent to England for observation work in April, 1942; returned to the United States and continued to serve the U. S. Air Corps until December, 1941; released by the Army to work for an aviation
company as test pilot; sent to India to supervise the assembling of planes, to test and deliver them to the Chinese government. Died April 17, 1942, in airplane crash landing Karachi India.
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Date 17 Apr 1942
Pilot: Duane J. Clapham
Aircraft type: P-43
Serial number:41-31475
Squadron: Chinese
Home Base: Karachi Air Base, India
Action: Killed due to Engine Failure, Destroyed by Fire
Place of Crash: Karachi Air Base, India
Home address: Norman, Cleveland County, OK. Mrs. J. C. Clapham,Mother, 490 Elm Ave., Norman. Born January 23, 1916. Enlisted August 12, 1939. Decoration: Meritorious Medal of the Army,Navy and Air forces, First Grade, A Class, received posthumously from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China for distinguished service. Graduated 1938, University of Oklahoma ; Second Lieutenant in Reserve Officers Training Corps. Active duty at Fort Sill ;entered U. S. Army Air Corps, and received wings at Kelly Field,
May, 1940 ; selected in January, 1941, to attend high stratospheric flying school, Dayton, Ohio, and was one of five best in this school;sent to England for observation work in April, 1942; returned to the United States and continued to serve the U. S. Air Corps until December, 1941; released by the Army to work for an aviation
company as test pilot; sent to India to supervise the assembling of planes, to test and deliver them to the Chinese government. Died April 17, 1942, in airplane crash landing Karachi India.
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Date 17 Apr 1942
Pilot: Duane J. Clapham
Aircraft type: P-43
Serial number:41-31475
Squadron: Chinese
Home Base: Karachi Air Base, India
Action: Killed due to Engine Failure, Destroyed by Fire
Place of Crash: Karachi Air Base, India
DUANE CLAPHAM, JR., First Lieutenant, U. S. Army Air Corps,
Home address: Norman, Cleveland County, OK. Mrs. J. C. Clapham,Mother, 490 Elm Ave., Norman. Born January 23, 1916. Enlisted August 12, 1939. Decoration: Meritorious Medal of the Army,Navy and Air forces, First Grade, A Class, received posthumously from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China for distinguished service. Graduated 1938, University of Oklahoma ; Second Lieutenant in Reserve Officers Training Corps. Active duty at Fort Sill ;entered U. S. Army Air Corps, and received wings at Kelly Field,
May, 1940 ; selected in January, 1941, to attend high stratospheric flying school, Dayton, Ohio, and was one of five best in this school;sent to England for observation work in April, 1942; returned to the United States and continued to serve the U. S. Air Corps until December, 1941; released by the Army to work for an aviation
company as test pilot; sent to India to supervise the assembling of planes, to test and deliver them to the Chinese government. Died April 17, 1942, in airplane crash landing Karachi India.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/default.htm
Date 17 Apr 1942
Pilot: Duane J. Clapham
Aircraft type: P-43
Serial number:41-31475
Squadron: Chinese
Home Base: Karachi Air Base, India
Action: Killed due to Engine Failure, Destroyed by Fire
Place of Crash: Karachi Air Base, India
Home address: Norman, Cleveland County, OK. Mrs. J. C. Clapham,Mother, 490 Elm Ave., Norman. Born January 23, 1916. Enlisted August 12, 1939. Decoration: Meritorious Medal of the Army,Navy and Air forces, First Grade, A Class, received posthumously from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China for distinguished service. Graduated 1938, University of Oklahoma ; Second Lieutenant in Reserve Officers Training Corps. Active duty at Fort Sill ;entered U. S. Army Air Corps, and received wings at Kelly Field,
May, 1940 ; selected in January, 1941, to attend high stratospheric flying school, Dayton, Ohio, and was one of five best in this school;sent to England for observation work in April, 1942; returned to the United States and continued to serve the U. S. Air Corps until December, 1941; released by the Army to work for an aviation
company as test pilot; sent to India to supervise the assembling of planes, to test and deliver them to the Chinese government. Died April 17, 1942, in airplane crash landing Karachi India.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/default.htm
Date 17 Apr 1942
Pilot: Duane J. Clapham
Aircraft type: P-43
Serial number:41-31475
Squadron: Chinese
Home Base: Karachi Air Base, India
Action: Killed due to Engine Failure, Destroyed by Fire
Place of Crash: Karachi Air Base, India
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