Robert Franklin Price
Military
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UPL 48603
Major Robert Franklin Price
Pilot - 668th BS Commander
416th Bomb Group
Wethersfield Airfield, UK
Pilot - 668th BS Commander
416th Bomb Group
Wethersfield Airfield, UK
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- 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
- Site type: Airfield
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 |