Robert Joseph Knapp, son of Louis J. and Elizabeth Knapp was born in Muscatine on December 03, 1918.
He lived in Davenport for sixteen years. Robert attended Saint Anthony's School Saint Ambrose Academy from 1940 to 1943 and Iowa State College in Ames. Prior to enlisting in the United States Army Air Force on 23 May 1943 Robert worked at Rock Island for two years. He served at Sheppard Field Texas; at an airfield near Santa Ana California; and at Kingman Air Base in Kingman Arizona. On January 06,1944 Robert and 31 other cadets plus four cadre boarded a bus for night time gunnery practice. On their return to the base the bus was struck by a diesel powered Santa Fe freight train killing twenty-seven. Base medical officers immediately set up a field hospital at the scene and ordered 300 men to stand by for blood transfusions to the more seriously injured. The Kingman Air Base commander called Robert's mother on 7 January informing her of Robert's death.
Robert was survived by his mother and two brothers; Louis T. (A Sergeant in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps stationed in England) and Charles E. (with the United States Army Air Forces stationed at Lincoln Nebraska).
Aviation Cadet Robert J. Knapp United States Army Air Forces is buried in Muscatine's Saint Mary's Cemetery.
Source: Saint Ambrose Academy school newspapers 1944
Kingman, AZ Train And Bus Collision, Jan 1944
http://www3.gendisasters.com/arizona/11536/kingman-az-train-bus-collision-jan-1944
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Robert Joseph Knapp wird von Find A Grave automatisch als Veteran gekennzeichnet werden.
He lived in Davenport for sixteen years. Robert attended Saint Anthony's School Saint Ambrose Academy from 1940 to 1943 and Iowa State College in Ames. Prior to enlisting in the United States Army Air Force on 23 May 1943 Robert worked at Rock Island for two years. He served at Sheppard Field Texas; at an airfield near Santa Ana California; and at Kingman Air Base in Kingman Arizona. On January 06,1944 Robert and 31 other cadets plus four cadre boarded a bus for night time gunnery practice. On their return to the base the bus was struck by a diesel powered Santa Fe freight train killing twenty-seven. Base medical officers immediately set up a field hospital at the scene and ordered 300 men to stand by for blood transfusions to the more seriously injured. The Kingman Air Base commander called Robert's mother on 7 January informing her of Robert's death.
Robert was survived by his mother and two brothers; Louis T. (A Sergeant in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps stationed in England) and Charles E. (with the United States Army Air Forces stationed at Lincoln Nebraska).
Aviation Cadet Robert J. Knapp United States Army Air Forces is buried in Muscatine's Saint Mary's Cemetery.
Source: Saint Ambrose Academy school newspapers 1944
Kingman, AZ Train And Bus Collision, Jan 1944
http://www3.gendisasters.com/arizona/11536/kingman-az-train-bus-collision-jan-1944
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Robert Joseph Knapp wird von Find A Grave automatisch als Veteran gekennzeichnet werden.
Robert Joseph Knapp, son of Louis J. and Elizabeth Knapp was born in Muscatine on December 03, 1918.
He lived in Davenport for sixteen years. Robert attended Saint Anthony's School Saint Ambrose Academy from 1940 to 1943 and Iowa State College in Ames. Prior to enlisting in the United States Army Air Force on 23 May 1943 Robert worked at Rock Island for two years. He served at Sheppard Field Texas; at an airfield near Santa Ana California; and at Kingman Air Base in Kingman Arizona. On January 06,1944 Robert and 31 other cadets plus four cadre boarded a bus for night time gunnery practice. On their return to the base the bus was struck by a diesel powered Santa Fe freight train killing twenty-seven. Base medical officers immediately set up a field hospital at the scene and ordered 300 men to stand by for blood transfusions to the more seriously injured. The Kingman Air Base commander called Robert's mother on 7 January informing her of Robert's death.
Robert was survived by his mother and two brothers; Louis T. (A Sergeant in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps stationed in England) and Charles E. (with the United States Army Air Forces stationed at Lincoln Nebraska).
Aviation Cadet Robert J. Knapp United States Army Air Forces is buried in Muscatine's Saint Mary's Cemetery.
Source: Saint Ambrose Academy school newspapers 1944
Kingman, AZ Train And Bus Collision, Jan 1944
http://www3.gendisasters.com/arizona/11536/kingman-az-train-bus-collision-jan-1944
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Robert Joseph Knapp wird von Find A Grave automatisch als Veteran gekennzeichnet werden.
He lived in Davenport for sixteen years. Robert attended Saint Anthony's School Saint Ambrose Academy from 1940 to 1943 and Iowa State College in Ames. Prior to enlisting in the United States Army Air Force on 23 May 1943 Robert worked at Rock Island for two years. He served at Sheppard Field Texas; at an airfield near Santa Ana California; and at Kingman Air Base in Kingman Arizona. On January 06,1944 Robert and 31 other cadets plus four cadre boarded a bus for night time gunnery practice. On their return to the base the bus was struck by a diesel powered Santa Fe freight train killing twenty-seven. Base medical officers immediately set up a field hospital at the scene and ordered 300 men to stand by for blood transfusions to the more seriously injured. The Kingman Air Base commander called Robert's mother on 7 January informing her of Robert's death.
Robert was survived by his mother and two brothers; Louis T. (A Sergeant in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps stationed in England) and Charles E. (with the United States Army Air Forces stationed at Lincoln Nebraska).
Aviation Cadet Robert J. Knapp United States Army Air Forces is buried in Muscatine's Saint Mary's Cemetery.
Source: Saint Ambrose Academy school newspapers 1944
Kingman, AZ Train And Bus Collision, Jan 1944
http://www3.gendisasters.com/arizona/11536/kingman-az-train-bus-collision-jan-1944
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Robert Joseph Knapp wird von Find A Grave automatisch als Veteran gekennzeichnet werden.
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