Robert Leroy Sprout
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Object Number - UPL 36608 - 1st Lt Robert LeRoy Sprout
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. 33 x missions. Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. 5-May-45. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16186500
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36742604
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32428704 / O-2015311
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-783932
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16153156 / O-828164
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Cambridge American Military Cemetery
![A bomber crew of the 92nd Bomb Group return to Podington following a mission flying B-17 Flying Fortresses to Wittenberg. A B-17 Flying Fortress (NV-K, serial number 42-29994) is visible in the background. Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for Publication 23 Feb 1945' [stamp]. ' News Chronicle Copyright Picture' [stamp]. Printed caption on reverse: 'Crew back from Wittenberg.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379172.jpg.webp?itok=G7D0FciD)
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Rodman, Iowa | 30 October 1923 | Son of Leroy and Edith Jean [Thompson] Sprout. Born Rodman, Iowa |
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Enlisted |
Des Moines, IA | 5 December 1942 | Enlisted Des Moines, Iowa |
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Based |
Podington | 1 January 1945 - 5 May 1945 | Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Died |
Sidown Hill, Hampshire | 5 May 1945 | Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. 5-May-45. Killed in Action (KIA) |
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Buried |
6 May 1945 | Interred Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Plot B Row 1 Grave 45 |
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