Robert Blacker
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
35 missions June 1944 to November 1944
DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
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Military
Wounded in action 7 July 1944 on Leipzig mission
Purple Heart (11 July 1944); air medal 23 Aug 1944
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
35 missions June 1944 to November 1944
DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster
Military | Captain | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Flew 35 missions in 1944 with the 398th BG from Nuthampstead.
Military | Technical Sergeant | 398th Bomb Group
air medal
Military | Staff Sergeant | 398th Bomb Group
Oak Leaf Cluster
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 398th Bomb Group
35 missions.
DFC/ AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster/ ETO/ GC/ WW II VM/ ATO
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball-turret gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Bob Rowland flew 35 missions in 1944 with the 398th BG from Nuthampstead.
air medal
In 2017, Bob was awarded the French Legion d'Honneur.
Military | Staff Sergeant | 398th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Assigned to 602BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Killed in Action (KIA) on 3 February 1945 near Kahlstorf (Lehmke), Germany in B-17 'Maude an Maria' #42-97387.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 398th Bomb Group
Completed 35 combat missions from 27 June to 17 October 1944.
DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DUC/ EAME
Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
Squadron
Squadron
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08 June 2019 12:03:40 | RayWells | Changes to person associations |
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27 September 2014 18:25:24 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / History 398th Vol 1 |