Robert Kern Potter
Military
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Object Number - UPL 21440 - 351st BG, 509 Squadron crew of the Portland Rose, AC 44-6907. Middle first row the pilot, Lt. Robert Kern Potter, to his right CP Lt. Jacob...
Lieutenant Robert Kern Potter commanded a Fort in the 351st BG out of Polebrook. He and his crew arrived in December of 1944. Together they flew 33 missions. Like most he piloted a number of different Forts until he had a regular one assigned, a B-17G , which he named "Portland Rose" as a tribute to his home town. He also flew an RB-26 recon plane in Korea beginning in March of 1952.
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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-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Transit Belle
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Torchy Tess
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 351st Bomb Group 509th Bomb Squadron 511th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Missions
- Date: 20 April 1945
- Date: 17 April 1945
- Date: 16 April 1945
- Date: 11 April 1945
- Date: 10 April 1945
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Revisions
His son, 351st. BG archive, 8th AF archive, pilots log. There is at least one discrepancy with this data base and that of the 351st and my father's log. For instance on 3/21/1945 his records and those of the 351st show then attacking Hopsten for which there is no record in this database. There are a couple of other examples of missions not shown in this database.
His son based on 351st archive, 8th AF archive, his personal log
His son, using 351st.org records as well as 8th AF records as well as my dad's personal logs.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.351st.org/ken.harbour/
