Robert J Phillips

Military
media-39779.jpeg UPL 39779 1st Lt John E Morse (Front row, end left) with his crew of B17 The Sweater Girl.
Standing left to right : John F. Humphreys (top-turret gunner, fatally injured , mission 54, Dec. 31, 1943) Charles S. Sechrist S/Sgt – Eng/TTG; Homer L. Neill S/Sgt – BTG; Charles E. Cox S/Sgt – RWG; Andrew L. Allen S/Sgt – LWG; Willard H. Clothier T/Sgt RO.
Kneeling left to right: John E. Morse 1st Lt – Pilot; Robert J.Philips FO – CP; Robert Y. Daniels 2nd Lt – Bom; Leonard R Lovelace 2nd Lt – Nav.

Photo by kind permission of Mary Barton, via Mitch Peeke.

Object Number - UPL 39779 - 1st Lt John E Morse (Front row, end left) with his crew of B17 The Sweater Girl. Standing left to right : John F. Humphreys (top-turret gunner,...

Shot down by flak and fighters and crashed near Oberbruch/Rheinland on a mission to a JU88.



Halbertstadt/Wernegarode Germany aircraft factory 22 Feb 1944 mission. Aircraft 'sweater girl' was seen hit by flack on the right wing and went down in a spin near Koln. Prisoner of War.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 379th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Events

Event Location Date Description

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Prisoner of war

22 February 1944

Born

Van Aletyne, Texas

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Sources

379th Bombardment Group Anthology, pg 299 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2868, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces

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