Information below gleaned from ancestry.com via newspapers.com from THE DES MOINES REGISTER, DES MOINES, IOWA, THURSDAY, JULY 27,1944 EDITION, PAGE 7

SERGT. CLAIBOURN IS KILLED IN ACTION

Tech. Sergt. Olden Claibourn has been killed in action in India, the war department has notified his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Kerns Claibourn, 2106 Cottage Grove ave.

Sergeant Claibourn, whose home was in Detroit, Mich., had been in service since August, 1942. He had been overseas since January, 1943.

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #36515104

11th Combat Cargo Squadron, 3rd Combat Cargo Group

Olden F. Claibourn is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Wayne County, Michigan.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 6225 John R, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. Contact person listed as Mrs. Thelma Marshall (Sister) of General Delivery, Hocomo, Howell County, Missouri. Place of birth listed as Poplar Bluff, Missouri on 01/25/1918. Middle name listed as Futrell. Employed by Dodge Plant, Joseph Campau & Smith Streets, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

Iowa, U.S., Marriage Records, 1880-1947 lists Olden Klaibourn (Claibourn) with a marriage date of 3 Sep 1940 in Audubon, Iowa to Myrtle Dungan. Parents listed as Allie Klaibourn and Emma Klaibourn.

U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 lists WWII deceased returned from Oahu Schofield Barracks, Mausoleum No. 2, Hawaiian Islands. Re-interred on October 26th, 1949.

Olden Claibourn died in a plane crash at Sookeratung Air Field at Sookerating, Assam, India when his plane (C-47A #42-93372) hit a tree on takeoff.

Killed over Burma-India were:

1LT DeRoy L Miller, Pilot

1LT James E Norton, Co-Pilot

TGST Paul R Lambert, Engineer

PFC Richard Adler, Radio Operator

CPL Robert M Closen

TEC5 Olden Claibourn

PVT Henry I Kaler

***I would like to thank Chuck Metcalfe Find A Grave ID 47281097 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank Wayne Coskrey Find A Grave ID 48193231 for adding his photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank David Cliborne Find A Grave ID 47274037 for updating the death date information on this memorial***