Robert D Smith
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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UPL 48882
2Lt Robert D Smith
ASN: O/774334
84FTR Sq 78 FTR GP
Entered the service from California
Air Medal, Purple Heart
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/smith%3Drobert-107
ASN: O/774334
84FTR Sq 78 FTR GP
Entered the service from California
Air Medal, Purple Heart
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/smith%3Drobert-107
Assigned to 84FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort in P-47D 43-25305 7-Oct-44; Strafing trains in vicinity of Steinhuder Lake, pulled up too late and 'mashed' into woods beyond. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 9260
Awards: AM, PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 78th Fighter Group 84th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Ardennes American Cemetery, Liege, Belgium
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: "Duckpond"
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Died |
6 miles NW Neustadt am Rubenberget, Germany | 7 October 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) escort in P-47D 43-25305 7-Oct-44; Strafing trains in vicinity of Steinhuder Lake, pulled up too late and 'mashed' into woods beyond. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 9260 |
Buried |
Neustadt am Rubenberge cemetery | 10 October 1944 | Interred Neustadt am Rubenberge cemetery |
Born |
Boise, Idaho, USA | ||
Buried |
Re-Interred Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Plot A Row 31 Grave 11 | ||
Arcadia, CA | Son of Hazel L Smith. | ||
Based |
Duxford | 7 October 1944 | Assigned to 84FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
ABMC, MACR 9260 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 9260 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list