9th Air Force
Military
Army Air Force 1st Lt. Robert G. Fenstermacher, of Scranton, was a P-47D pilot who crashed in Belgium in December 1944 during an armed-reconnaissance mission against targets in Germany. He was 23.
Fenstermacher was declared Killed in Action but his remains could not immediately be recovered after the crash. Following the war, the U.S. Army interviewed a local Belgian woman who said an aircraft crashed into the side of her house, but the crash site couldn’t be located. In 2012 a group of local historians excavated a private yard in Petergensfeld, Belgium, recovering human remains that were identified as Fenstermacher’s.
Group
A unit history of the 404th Fighter Group is available online as a pdf:
http://www.winkton.net/Leap%20Off/LeapOffPdf3.pdf
Squadron
Military site : airfield
Prepared as an RAF Advanced Landing Ground in 1943, the land was released for grazing before it was again selected for aircraft use, and improved for the Ninth Air Force in 1944. Used briefly by the 404th Fighter Group, it was then abandoned,...
Military site : airfield
Military site : airfield
Military site : airfield
Military site : airfield
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Scranton, Pennsylvania | 12 December 1921 |
Died | near Petergensfeld, Belgium | 26 December 1944 |
Buried | Arlington National Cemetery | 18 October 2013 |
Arlington National Cemetery |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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22 April 2019 23:39:58 | 466thHistorian | Changes to place associations |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
22 April 2019 23:36:23 | 466thHistorian | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, biography, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/10/11/remains-of-3-missing-pa-air... |