Robert Alban McCauley

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media-47896.jpeg UPL 47896 Photo taken at Ft Worth, Texas

This is my father.

Object Number - UPL 47896 - Photo taken at Ft Worth, Texas

Flew 32 missions (227:30 combat hours), volunteered to do the Aphrodite mission and bailed out (30 Oct 1944).

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The insignia of the 388th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-753181
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron 563rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Miss Adventure
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mugwump, Rum Boogie II
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron 418th Bomb Squadron 803rd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Cock of the Walk

Missions

  • Date: 30 October 1944

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Born

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Born in the Stetson Hospital in Philadelphia.

Died

Anacortes WA

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My father had great respect for Elton.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Malloy, Donald

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