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Robert Clift World War II map and papers collection

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Robert Clift World War II map and papers collection
ITEM 1A Map of sixteen missions 1945
Annotated map
Includes: target, coordinates, date, and mission type
ITEM 1B Mission roster 1945
Lists sixteen missions
Includes location name, time, and coordinates
ITEM 2 List of crew and aircraft 1945
Names, rank and duties of nine crew members
B-24 Liberators flown - "Pipecraft O" and "Reach Forth H"
ITEM 3 Photograph of the crew 1945
Clift is in back row on the right
ITEM 4 History of missions 1945
Explanation of bombing raids, supply drops to the "Norwegian Underground" and allied agent insertion missions along the Bavarian Mountains
ITEM 5 Letter from U.S. War Deparment for Unit Citation 1947
Dropping supplies to resistance group, parachuting agetnts, low altitude, dangerous missions behind enemy lines.
ITEM 5 Letter from U.S. War Deparment for Unit Citation 1947
Dropping supplies to resistance group, parachuting agetnts, low altitude, dangerous missions behind enemy lines.
ITEM 6 Operations Orders 11 April Citation 1945
Stamped "secret"
"VOCO" (verbal orders of commanding officer)
ITEM 7 Operations Orders 11 April Citation 1945
Stamped "secret"
"VOCO" (verbal orders of commanding officer)

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