Robert H Grafton
MilitaryPilot B-17F #42-30131 presumed lost at sea when it failed to return from a weather reconnaissance mission on 2 Feb 1944. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Other
- Unit Hierarchy: Unit
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Other
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: No 1 Combat Crew Replacement Center 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 2 February 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Enlisted |
New York, NY, USA | 26 March 1942 | |
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Died |
Nth Atlantic Ocean | 2 February 1944 | Presumed lost at sea when A/C failed to return from a weather reconnaissance mission on 2 Feb 1944. Killed in Action (KIA). |
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Buried |
Tablets of the missing. Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial. | ||
| Monroe County, NY, USA | |||
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Born |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
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ContributorAAM
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Sources
8th AF Losses / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia