Robert B Leventhal
Military
388th BG - 562nd BS
Standing Left to Right: Robert B. Leventhal (N), Paul P. Bensel (P), Phillip H. Pick (B), Glenn E. Kofoed (CP)
Kneeling Left to Right: Glinford E. Walls (LWG), Victor J. Stackniewicz (BTG), Leander A. Haschke (FE), Bonnie Skloss (WG), Kenneth R. Willis (R/O), James H. Cruchon (TG)
Lieutenant Paul Bensel and his crew of the 388th Bomb Group stand with a bomb, personally addressed to Hitler, and their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5954) nicknamed "Mister Yank II" before the Regensburg Raid, August 1943. A B-17 nicknamed "Homesick Angel" is visible in the background. Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 1487 - Paul Bensel Crew 388th BG - 562nd BS Standing Left to Right: Robert B. Leventhal (N), Paul P. Bensel (P), Phillip H. Pick (B), Glenn E. Kofoed...
Killed in Action (KIA) 16 September 1943
AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster
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- Date: 16 August 1943
- Date: 15 August 1943
- Date: 12 August 1943
- Date: 30 July 1943
- Date: 29 July 1943
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
ST. Louis, MO | 10 November 1921 | |
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Other 388th BG Combat Tour |
Knettishall Airfield, UK | 24 July 1943 - 16 September 1943 | |
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Died |
Upper Cilgee Farm, Llanyre, Wales | 16 September 1943 | Leventhal was KIA when his a/c crashed in bad weather returning from the mission to Bordeaux |
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Buried |
19 September 1943 | Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Plot C Row 4 Grave 64 | |
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Enlisted |
St. Louis, MO | 6030 Cates |
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ABMC / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia