Robert Earnest Daw Jr

Military
media-21845.jpeg UPL 21845 P-47D 42-75392 'Spunky' 377FS, 362FG, 9AF USAAF. Pilot 1st Lt Robert E Daw Jr KIA.

Object Number - UPL 21845 - P-47D 42-75392 'Spunky' 377FS, 362FG, 9AF USAAF. Pilot 1st Lt Robert E Daw Jr KIA.

Assigned to 377FS, 362FG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) from strafing mission, hit trees strafing armed vehicles on edge of woods. With a dead engine bellied in successfully near Benonchamps, Luxembourg unharmed a mile from US lines. Later declared KIA, may have been executed by SS troops in area. 30-Dec-44. MACR 11547.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Spunky
  • Unit: 362nd Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron 377th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Joaquin, TX 75954, USA 4 January 1922 Son of Robert Earnest and Christine [Irish] Daw.

Enlisted

Houston, TX 18 February 1943 Houston, Texas

Died

Benonchamps, 6600 Bastogne, Belgium 30 December 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) from strafing mission, hit trees strafing armed vehicles on edge of woods. With a dead engine Lt Daws Jr bellied in successfully nr Benonchamps, Luxembourg unharmed a mile from US lines. Later declared KIA, may have been executed by SS troops in area. 30-Dec-44.
Joaquin, TX 75954, USA

Buried

Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial.

Other

Crashed

Richmond, VA, USA Narrowly escaped death while training in Richmond, Virginia. His plane crashed and caught fire as it landed and he was pulled from the plane just before it exploded.

Buried

Joaquin Cemetery Joaquin Shelby County TX Re-interred: Joaquin Cemetery Joaquin Shelby County Texas, USA

Based

Lashenden 30 December 1944 Assigned to 377FS, 362FG, 9AF USAAF.

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