Robert Edwin Frith
MilitaryShot down 18 April 1944 in B-17 #4237902 'Sure Thing;, where he was manning the left waist gun. He suffered the same fate as the rest of his fellow crewmen, becoming a Prisoner of War (POW). However, he would safely make it home at the end of the war.
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![A B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Ruth L", flown by Lieutenant NL Young, of the 96th Bomb Group flies through a cascade of bombs released by another Fortress over Oranienburg, Germany. Strike camera photo. Handwritten caption on reverse: '22/3/44. Looks like JW code - 92BG? [sic]Supposedly Bremen raid but bombs look like M47.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-408680.jpg.webp?itok=47P7nfd_)
- Date: 22 March 1944
- Date: 16 March 1944
- Date: 15 March 1944
- Date: 9 March 1944
- Date: 4 March 1944
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | 29 August 1920 | |
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Other Shot down |
Barnewitz, Germany | 18 April 1944 | Shot down over a mission to Oranienburg, Germany, while on B-17 42-37902, while serving as the waist gunner on the left side. Would later become a POW. |
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Other Prisoner Of War |
Dulag Luft XII, Poland | 18 April 1944 | Spent time as a POW at Dulag Luft XII. |
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Buried |
Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | 5 January 2004 | |
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Died |
Winona, Minnesota, USA | 31 December 2004 | |
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Enlisted |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | ||
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Based |
Framlingham | Assigned to 568BS, 390BG, 8AF. |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4013 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database