Robert D Couture
MilitaryPrivate collection Gregory Pons
Assigned to 354FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF.
Failed to Return (FTR) from patrol mission, hit by Flak whilst strafing ground targets near Nogent La Rotrol 7-Jun-44 in P-51B #43-6895. MACR 5565. Crash landed near Vicheres and was hidden on a farm by the Rousseaus. He was hidden by the French Underground and later taken to Forest Freteval, near Cloyes. Liberated by Patton's troops in Aug 1944 Evaded (EVD). Ended Tour Duty (ETD).
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Nicknames: Hat Jane
- Unit: 355th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron 354th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Rice Lake, Wisconsin | 1 February 1924 | Son of Wilfred and Laura (Oleson) Couture. |
Enlisted |
Marshfield, WI, USA | 1 June 1942 | |
Other Assigned |
Steeple Morden, Royston, Cambridgeshire SG8, UK | 26 May 1944 - 6 September 1944 | Assigned to 354FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other Evaded |
Forest Freteval, France | 7 June 1944 | Crash landed near Vicheres and was hidden on a farm by the Rousseaus. He was hidden by the French Underground and later taken to Forest Freteval, near Cloyes. Liberated by Patton's troops in Aug 1944 Evaded (EVD). |
Other Shot down |
28480 Vichères, France | 7 June 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) from patrol mission, hit by Flak whilst strafing ground targets near Nogent La Rotrol 7-Jun-44 in P-51B #43-6895. MACR 5565. |
Other End Tour Duty (ETD) |
England, UK | 6 September 1944 | Ended Tour Duty (ETD). |
Died |
Warrenton, MO, USA | 14 January 2010 | |
Buried |
2900 Sheridan Rd, St. Louis, MO 63125, USA | Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay St. Louis County Missouri, USA. |
Revisions
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Transferred relevant information from duplicate record
MACR 5565 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
1996 355TH FG Assoc. Directory/MACR 5565; The History of the 446th Bomb Group, pg 79 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list