Robert L Abrams

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down by fighters on a mission to Erkner, Berlin on 8 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-37954 'Hank from Dixie'. Killed in Action (KIA).



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Units served with

The insignia of the 452nd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hank from Dixie, Paper Doll.
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 729th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Duchess of FUBAR
  • Unit: 452nd Bomb Group 730th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Drafted

Pearl River, New York 14 February 1942

Buried

Moritz, Germany 8 March 1944 communal cemetery

Died

8 March 1944

Born

Nyack, New York, USA

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Töppel, 39264 Moritz, Germany 8 March 1944 MACR 3192

Buried

Reinterred Plot B, Row 28, Grave 23

Revisions

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ContributorAndycole0
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Sources

American Battle Monument's Commission www.abmc.gov
Ancestry.com
Find a Grave.

Date
Contributorkeatinglyn
Changes
Sources

Missing Planes of the 452nd Bomb Group, 3rd edition, Edward Hinrichs

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

ABMC, MACR 3192, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3192 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database