Robert Ellison O'Bannon

Military
media-22390.jpeg UPL 22390 POW Identification Card.

Family Records and Kolobrzeg (Kolberg) Museum of Arms.

Object Number - UPL 22390 - POW Identification Card.

Shot down by fighters and at Rothenklempenow on 6/21/44 in B-17 #446117. Entire crew bailed out. Prisoner of War. Plane crashed into Lake Stolsko near Szczecin (Stettin).

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 91st Bomb Group.

91st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

44-6117

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 322nd Bomb Squadron

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Events

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Born

California, USA 1 February 1921

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Germany 21 June 1944 - 20 May 1945

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Lake name correction.

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Various.

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Family Birth Records

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5980 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

Robert Ellison O'Bannon: Gallery (4 items)

Object number: UPL 22388 - "COMPONENTS OF B-17G OF 31ST SQN, 91ST BOMB GROUP...

Object number: UPL 22390 - POW Identification Card.

Object number: UPL 34235 - Uncle Bob’s license plate.

Object number: UPL 34244 - Lt. Robert O’Bannon, pilot, bottom row, second...