Claude A. Waldrop

(1920 – 2007)

  WW II – U.S. Air Force 

Enlistment State: Georgia

Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for acts of heroism performed during aerial flight in World War II.

 

 

 

- G. Grandson of William Henry Barlow
- Grandson of John Maultsby ‘Doc’ Barlow (Barlar)
- Son of Florence ‘Roberta’ Barlar, Waldrop

 

 


Claude served as a crew member aboard a B-24, flying bombing missions over Japan.  On one of those missions, they got hit in mid-flight and the plane’s fuel tank caught on fire.  Claude ‘saved their bacon’ when he was able to finally put out that fire. 

   __Rayburn Cole Waldrop



 

 

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