Robert William Metlen
Military
Corrected diploma year. Not 1944, as Metlen was shot down in December 1943.
Object Number - UPL 41074 - Robert W Metlen. Graduated from Army Air Services Technical School as a Radio Operator and Mechanic. Scott, IL Army Air Force Base. 1943.
Shot down 20 October 1943 in B-17 #42-30372 'Shack Rabbit III', a B-17 borrowed from the 413th BS. The underground passed him from Belgium through France to Spain. He was back in England by 18 December 1943. Helped by the Belgian evasion network "Comete".
See his page at www.evasioncomete.be >>> Fiches.
Connections
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35335090
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 422nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14138863
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18075384 and O-747132
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32439050
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32454573
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 8 October 1943
- Date: 4 October 1943
- Date: 27 September 1943
Places
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Townsend, Montana | 6 August 1922 | |
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Enlisted |
Pocatello, Idaho, United States | 22 October 1942 | |
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Died |
Ontario, Oregon, United States | 30 October 2007 | |
| Pocatello, Idaho, United States |
Revisions
Added a "#" to the A/C serial number in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.
Merged with duplicate records to include information from :
Snetterton Falcons pg 76;
MACR 1017 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia;
MACR 1017 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
NARA WWII Enlistment records
MACR 1017
Escape & Evasion Report E&E 274
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1017, AFEES; Snetterton Falcons pg 60