Robert Simmons Voyles

Military

Assigned to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Lost on bomber escort to Halle, Germany. On return from mission, strafed Wiemar Aerodrome, hit by ground fire, engine streaming glycol. P-51D 'Old Witch' 44-14537 crashed near Marksahl on 27-Feb-45. Pilot Lt Robert Voyles baled out. POW. MACR 12783.

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Units served with

Aircraft

44-13306

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron

44-13519

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron
A P-51 Mustang, nicknamed "Man O' War" of the 4th Fighter Group, at Debden flown by Lieutenant Colonel Claiborne Kinnard, who commanded the group from August to late November 1944. The two projections from the cockpit are wing mirrors. Handwritten on slide:"C/C Rod on Kinnard's Man O'War Richie"

44-14292

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Man O War Old Witch Floozy Suzy
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron

44-14537

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Old Witch
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 334th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Belle Fourche, SD 57717, USA 18 January 1918 Son of Robert Fredrick and Alma Elizabeth [Simmons] Voyles.

Enlisted

Omaha, NE, USA 13 October 1942

Other

Assigned

Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK 18 September 1944 - 27 February 1945 Assigned to 334FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF.

Other

Promotion

Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK 3 February 1945 Promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

Other

Shot down

Weimar, Germany 27 February 1945 Lost on bomber escort to Halle, Germany. On return from mission, strafed Wiemar Aerodrome, hit by ground fire, engine streaming glycol. P-51D 'Old Witch' 44-14537 crashed near Marksahl on 27-Feb-45. Pilot Lt Robert Voyles baled out. POW. MACR 12783.

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Zagan, Poland 27 February 1945 Prisoner of War (POW).

Died

Belle Fourche, SD 57717, USA 6 February 1995
Delmont, South Dakota, USA

Buried

Belle Fourche, SD 57717, USA Pine Slope Cemetery Belle Fourche Butte County South Dakota, USA.

Revisions

Date6 Apr 2016 12:34:50
ContributorAl_Skiff
ChangesChanges to events
Sources

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=VOYLES&GSfn=Rober…;
https://www.fold3.com/page/67631267_robert_s%20voyles/details/

Date6 Apr 2016 12:29:53
ContributorAl_Skiff
ChangesChanges to middlename, highest rank, biography, awards, events and unit associations
Sources

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=VOYLES&GSfn=Rober…;

Date2 Apr 2015 20:18:32
Contributorapollo11
ChangesChanges to role, biography, events and place associations
Sources

Personal research & 'The Debden Eagles' by Garry L. Fry.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:24:10
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 12783 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list