Robert L Mays
MilitaryIWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Bailed out of B-17 41-24582 'One O' Clock Jump while serving as Co-Pilot. Aircraft went into a flat spin near Fontainebleau, France and crashed. He evaded capture. Flew 2 Operations (see Biography events). First pilot to escape Occupied Europe.
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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
- Nicknames: One O'Clock Jump
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 12 December 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Mission #1 2LT Robert L. Mays, 2/41-24582, 303BG/358BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 23 November 1942 | Served as Co-Pilot of 41-24582 "One O'Clock Jump", 303BG/358BS on mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France (RTB OK) |
Other Evaded Capture |
Fontainebleau, France | 12 December 1942 - 14 January 1943 | Baled out of B-17 41-24582 near Fontainebleau, France and managed to evade capture. He returned to England on 14-Jan-1943. His evasion account may be seen at: http://media.nara.gov/nw/305270/EE-06.pdf |
Other Mission #2 2LT Robert L. Mays, w/41-24582, 303BG/358BS EVD |
Rouen, France | 12 December 1942 | Served as C-Pilot of 41-24582 "One O'Clock Jump", 303BG/358BS on mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Rouen, France. EVD |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 6-Aug-2015 Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 12-Dec-42, Gray Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/006.pdf
Lee Cunningham 6-Aug-2015. Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website Mission Report of 23-Nov-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/004.pdf
Lee Cunningham 9-Nov-2014. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 16031; National Archives Records Administration (NARA) Escape & Evasion Report #6, http://media.nara.gov/nw/305270/EE-06.pdf.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, MACR 16031, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 53