Robert K Flynn
Military ROLL OF HONOURJoined Sqd 2-Aug-42. ETO/Flight Echelon 2-Oct-42. Killed in Action (KIA) 15-Feb-43 (Dunkirk). Pilot: Cramer. 2/15/1943B-24 41-23800 'The Captain and the Kids' was hit by flak at the start of a bomb run putting an engine out of action. FW 109s put out another engine then over the sea a 3rd engine burst into flames. Cpt Cramer made a wheels up landing at Sandwich Flats on Kent coast. 3 were Killed in Action (KIA) but 7 were returned successfully.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: The Captain and the Kids
- Unit: 44th Bomb Group 68th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 15 February 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Pathway
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
15 February 1943 | Killed when aircraft sustained flak damage over the target of Dunkirk, France and then attacked by fighters. | |
Born |
Blair, Nebraska | ||
Buried |
Blair, NE, USA | Originally buried at Cambridge American Cemetery but after the war his remains were repatriated and re-interred at Blair, Nebraska |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 17-Feb-2015. All changed and addition per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Webb Todd, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop and Hey, p.77, 44th BG Roll of Honor and Casualties by Lundy pp. 48-49