Robert Carver Sears

Military
media-47595.jpeg UPL 47595 Lt Col Robert C Sears, 453BG

Object Number - UPL 47595 - Lt Col Robert C Sears, 453BG

Commanded air division on Berlin raid. Shot down 29-Apr-44 in B-24 41-28676. Prisoner of War (POW). Command Pilot.





Awards: AM (OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Colonel Larry Thomas of the 453rd Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Larry Thomas 453BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 389th Bomb Group 564th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
Prisoners of war, including Colonel Hubert Zemke of the 479th Fighter Group at Stalag Luft I.
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany

Events

Event Location Date Description

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Prisoner of War (POW)

Barth, Germany 29 April 1944 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I.

Other

Baled out POW

Dümmer, Germany 29 April 1944 Shot down 29-Apr-44 in B-24 41-28676. POW.

Died

North Carolina 18 November 2017
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Based

Old Buckenham 29 April 1944 Assigned to 735BS, 453BG, 8AF.

Born

Other

Military education

West Point, NY West Point graduate class of 1939.

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4494 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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