Cerro Gordo County

 
Lt. Clair F. Mullin

 

 


Clair F. Mullin was born June 24, 1923 to Walter J. and Annie L. Murphy Mullin. He died Sept. 21, 1944 and is buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, MO. He was originally interred overseas and was repatriated on Aug. 27, 1949. He is memorialized at Saint Patricks Catholic Cemetery, Dougherty, IA.

Lt. Mullin was KIA in Ingelmunster, West Flanders, Belgium in the collision of his B-24 with a B-24J during a bombing mission to Koblenz, Germany. He was awarded the Air Medal and a Purple Heart.

Source: ancestry.com