Robert Lennes Burry
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Robert L Burry was killed on 15 December 1944 returning from a mission on Kassel. Weather became very heavily overcast and the aircraft was trying to land using radio beacons. They hit the radio tower at Daventry and all of the crew members who did not bail out were killed in the ensuing crash.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- 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
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron 813th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Pappy, Good Snuf
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 15 December 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Base Air Depot Area (BADA) : 1st Base Air Depot (1 BAD)
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Military site
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Detroit, MI, USA | 25 December 1921 | |
Enlisted |
Detroit, MI, USA | 27 January 1942 | |
Based |
Chelveston | 14 December 1944 | |
Other Killied in Action (KIA) |
Daventry, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11, UK | 15 December 1944 | |
Buried |
Plot F Row 7 Grave 124 |
Revisions
Combined two entries from Robert Burry into a single entry. Now includes information from the following sources:
305th BG Unit history / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
His granddaughter, Rebecca Saywell.
ABMC record: http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…
Enlistment record: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=3&cat=all&tf=…
Findagrave record: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=burry&GSfn=robert…;
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roster