Military Service Of
Claude A. Waldrop, Jr
(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.
Claude A. Waldrop,
Jr is listed in the WW II Memorial Registry honorees.
“Claude
served as a crew member aboard a B-24, flying
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 (Claude's brother)
