Name:
Clarence Martin Franssen
Rank:
Corporal
Serial Number:
19263748
Unit:
324th Reconnaissance Squadron (VLR) Photo, 91st Reconnaissance Group
Date of Death:
1948-11-03
State:
Idaho
Cemetery:
Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Plot:
Section T, Block 3, Lot 86; Upright marble headstone
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Clarence Martin Franssen was born on November 8, 1929, in Alberta, Canada. He was a passenger aboard U.S. Air Force RB-29A Superfortress #44-61999. He perished when the reconnaissance-variant bomber, named "Overexposed" collided, in poor visibility weather, with a ridgetop called Higher Shelf Stones, near Glossop, England (approximately midway between Manchester and Sheffield) while on a flight from RAF Scampton to RAF Burtonwood. All 13 aboard were killed.
CPL Franssen is now buried in the Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, Calgary Census Division, Alberta, Canada.
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