Robert F Pipes
Military
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UPL 17257
Crew #408
Frank V. Cotner Crew
466th BG - 784th BS
Standing Left to Right: Ralph J. Fiskow (BTG), H.L. Heafner (LWG), Charles H. Doring (R/O), Edward L. Mount (TG), Robert F. Pipes (FE)
Kneeling Left to Right: Frank V. Cotner (P), Edward W. Dwan (CP), Melvin H. Everding (N), Norman H. Roth (B)
This original 466th BG crew was shot down on their 11th mission, 29 April 1944. Dwan was not on board that day and was replaced by John B. Stuart. Also Robert J. Falk had joined the crew as a waist gunner and was the only man KIA when they were shot down. Pipes and Heafner were evadees. The rest were made POW. 466th Bomb Group collection
Frank V. Cotner Crew
466th BG - 784th BS
Standing Left to Right: Ralph J. Fiskow (BTG), H.L. Heafner (LWG), Charles H. Doring (R/O), Edward L. Mount (TG), Robert F. Pipes (FE)
Kneeling Left to Right: Frank V. Cotner (P), Edward W. Dwan (CP), Melvin H. Everding (N), Norman H. Roth (B)
This original 466th BG crew was shot down on their 11th mission, 29 April 1944. Dwan was not on board that day and was replaced by John B. Stuart. Also Robert J. Falk had joined the crew as a waist gunner and was the only man KIA when they were shot down. Pipes and Heafner were evadees. The rest were made POW. 466th Bomb Group collection
Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom
Shot down 29 April 1944 in B-24 #4229399 'Play Boy. ' Evaded.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O 803568
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Play Boy
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
24 December 1918 | ||
Other Evaded |
29 April 1944 | ||
Died Shot Down |
1 January 2016 - 29 April 1944 | Heafner, Mount and Fiskow, the gunners; Doring the radio operator; Roth, the bombardier, Stuart the Co-pilot; Cotner, the pilot and I, jumped at about 10,000 feet. Falk had been killed in the attach and was still in the aircraft. Heafner and I, the two southerners, would evade capture by being hidden from the Nazis for more that a year. - Robert Pipes | |
Enlisted |
Revisions
Contributorjmoore43
Changes
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Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a separator to aid readability.
ContributorBrianPipes
Changes
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Playboy Crew 1943-1944 Memoirs of WWII , The Men of B-24 Liberator 41-29399
ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4448 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database