Robert Franklin Price

Military
media-48603.jpeg UPL 48603 Major Robert Franklin Price
Pilot - 668th BS Commander
416th Bomb Group
Wethersfield Airfield, UK

Object Number - UPL 48603 - Major Robert Franklin Price Pilot - 668th BS Commander 416th Bomb Group Wethersfield Airfield, UK

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Units served with

An A-26 Invader (F6-P, serial number 43-22330) nicknamed "For Pete's Sake" of the 416th Bomb Group prepares for take-off at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group . Written on slide casing: '416 BG Mount Farm.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Ninth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 668th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33466434
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Mechanic/Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 669th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-748066
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Bombardier/Navigator

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 669th Bomb Squadron 2911th Bomb Squadron (Provisional)
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 671st Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Nicknames: Paula E II Bootsie
  • Unit: 410th Bomb Group 416th Bomb Group 646th Bomb Squadron 671st Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: A-26 Invader
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 668th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
  • Unit: 416th Bomb Group 668th Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Melun, Alsace

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Boaz Wood, West Virginia 5 November 1920

Other

First 416th BG Combat Mission

Poix Airfield, France 3 March 1944

Other

Wounded in Action/Purple Heart

Chartres, France 3 June 1944 General Orders No. 99, 9 June 1944, Purple Heart is awarded to: 668th Bombardment Squadron (L), Robert F. Price, O-431508, Major, Air Corps, United States Army. For wounds received in action against an enemy of the United States on 3 June 1944, while serving as Pilot of an A-20 airplane on a combat operational mission over enemy occupied territory. Entered military service at Valley Chapel, W. Va.

Other

Final 416th BG Combat Mission

Stod, Czech Republic 3 May 1945 Price flew 78 combat missions. He flew both the first 416th BG combat mission and the last (285th) 416th BG combat mission some 14 months later.

Died

Fayetteville, Arkansas 14 September 1992

Buried

25 September 1992 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Plot Section 59 Site 2451

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