Lester M Robuck
MilitaryOn 23 January 1943 in B-17F 41-24580 'Hellcat Agnes' while serving as Right Waist Gunner the aircraft was downed by fighters near Brest. He was able to parachute to safety and was captured as a Prisoner of War (POW). Participated in 4 Operations - 2 Aborted (See Biography events).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hellcat Agnes : No Monkey Business
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 23 January 1943
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 12 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 6 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Mission #1 SGT Lester M. Robuck w/B-17F 41-24580, 303BG/358BS - Aborted |
6 December 1942 | Served as Tail Gunner on B-17F 41-24580 "Hell Cat", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the carraige and wagons works at Lille, France, but mechanical failures forced the Pilot to abort the mission. (RTB OK) | |
Other Mission #2 SGT Lester M. Robuck w/B-17F 41-24580, 303BG/358BS |
12 December 1942 | Served as Right Waist Gunner on B-17F 41-24580 "Hell Cat", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Rouen, France. (RTB OK) | |
Other Mission #3 SGT Lester M. Robuck w/B-17F 41-24580, 303BG/358BS - Aborted |
20 December 1942 | Served as Left Waist Gunner on B-17F 41-24580 "Hell Cat", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the German air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France, but mechanical failures force the Pilot to abort the mission. (RTB OK) | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
23 January 1943 - 21 July 1945 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf (near Krems), Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 21-Jul-45. | |
Other Mission #4 SGT Lester M. Robuck w/B-17F 41-24580, 303BG/358BS POW |
23 January 1943 | Served as Right Waist Gunner on B-17F 41-24580 "Hell Cat", 303BG/358BS on a mission to bomb the U-Baot pens at Lorient, France. The aircraft was shot down by fighter but he baled out and was captured as a Prisoner of War (POW). |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 15-Aug-2015. Added Mission #4 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 23-Jan-43, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/011.pdf
Lee Cunningham 15-Aug-2015. Added Mission #3 event per 3203BG website Mission Report of 20-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/007.pdf
Lee Cunningham 15-Aug-2015. Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 12-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/006.pdf
Lee Cunningham 15-Aug-2015. Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 6-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/005.pdf
Lee Cunningham 15-Aug-2015. Added Operations participation to Summary Biography and made connections to Missions per 303BG website; Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missions.html
Lee Cunningham 22-Jan-2015. Added decoration, SN and POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; Corrected Role/Job per 303rd Bomb Group website: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-358-oconnor.html; Made connections to Place, AIrcraft and Mission within existing website data; Edited descritpion per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit history, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs by Bishop and Hey Vol. 1 p. 65-66 MACR 15473