Robert Philo Burgess

Military

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Units served with

Aircraft

41-30551

  • Aircraft Type: B-25 Mitchell
  • Nicknames: Pink Lady
  • Unit: 321st Bomb Group 446th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Beach, Illinois 14 March 1918
Libertyville, IL 16 October 1940 1125 Milwaukee Avenue Worked for Johns-Manville Corp.

Enlisted

Rockford, IL 25 January 1941 Camp Grant

Died

Tyrrhenian Sea off Anzio Beach, Italy 19 February 1944 On February 19, 1944 he was on the crew of the North American B-25C Mitchell medium bomber #41-30551 "Pink Lady" based out of Foggia, Italy. It was reported that they were shot down while bombing enemy troops at Anzio and crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea. They dived their damaged B-25 into the sea to avoid hitting a hospital ship. There were no survivors.

Buried

Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial No Known Grave Tablets of The Missing Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial Nettuno, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy

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