Robert Vallilee

Military

Assigned Sept 1944

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Units served with

The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Agony Wagon III
  • Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

9 January 1943

Born

Born

Buried

Revisions

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Contributorjmoore43
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Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a separator to aid readability.

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Contributorjmoore43
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Removed "nmi" from the middle name field.

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ContributorTimothy Vallilee
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my Dads service number was 059166347, same as his SSAN.
to my knowledge he never lived in Ohio

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ContributorLucy May
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Taken out '059166347' from service number and replaced with '32732325' from enlistment record: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=2&tf=F&q=Val…

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ContributorTimothy Vallilee
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I saw the ribbon with the oak leaf cluster in my father's personal memorabilia. His headstone from the Dept of Veteran Affairs includes a citation of this award. He is buried in the St Joseph's Catholic cemetery in Waverly, NY.

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ContributorTimothy Vallilee
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His son.

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ContributorTimothy Vallilee
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I am his son.

Timothy Vallilee
305-504-3555

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Snetterton Falcons, pg 194