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SSgt Robert Bruce McClelland, Jr.
to remember
Tinker, Clarence Leonard, Sr., Maj Gen.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Last Address Hickam Field, Oahu, T.H.
Casualty Date Jun 05, 1942
Cause Non Hostile- Died while Missing
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Sea
Location Midway Islands
Conflict World War II/Asian-Pacific Theater
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
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Details Behind Award
He was serving as the Assistant Military Air Attache in American Embassy in London in 1926. Received this award for rescuing his fellow pilot from a burning aircraft in which they both had crashed south of London.
On September 21, 1926, Tinker and Commander Robert A. Burg, Assistant Naval Attache for Aviation, crashed their aircraft at Whyteleafe, near Caterham, in Surrey, about 10-15 miles south of London.
