Robert Lennes Burry

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Robert L Burry was killed on 15 December 1944 returning from a mission on Kassel. Weather became very heavily overcast and the aircraft was trying to land using radio beacons. They hit the radio tower at Daventry and all of the crew members who did not bail out were killed in the ensuing crash.

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Units served with

Official emblem of the 303rd Bomb Group approved 7 November 1942.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron 813th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Pappy, Good Snuf
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 359th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron

Missions

  • Date: 15 December 1944

Places

Aerial photograph of Burtonwood airfield, 10 August 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/622. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Base Air Depot Area (BADA) : 1st Base Air Depot (1 BAD)

Events

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Born

Detroit, MI, USA 25 December 1921

Enlisted

Detroit, MI, USA 27 January 1942

Based

Chelveston 14 December 1944

Other

Killied in Action (KIA)

Daventry, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11, UK 15 December 1944

Buried

Plot F Row 7 Grave 124

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Stars and Stripes Newspaper Archive.

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482nd Bomb Group Unit Histories.
Special Orders 13 December 1943.

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Combined two entries from Robert Burry into a single entry. Now includes information from the following sources:
305th BG Unit history / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

His granddaughter, Rebecca Saywell.

ABMC record: http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…

Enlistment record: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=3&cat=all&tf=…

Findagrave record: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=burry&GSfn=robert…;

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roster

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