WORLD WAR II
Son of Robert Eugene and Martha Jacqueline Rhodes Adams. Robert married Mary Alice Bartlett on June 2, 1938 and was the father of Robert Eugene Adams, III, who was nine months old at the time of his father's death.
"Enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 3 August 1942 at Cochran Field near Macon, Georgia. Assigned to the Central Pacific Theater of Operations, 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group (Very Heavy), 871 Bomb Squadron, stationed at Isley Field on Saipan in the Mariana Islands. He flew as the Flight Engineer aboard a Boeing B-29 Superfortress nicknamed 'Gonna Mak'er' (Tail #42-65231) as part of the Group formation to bomb the Tachiarai Army Airfield, Japan's southern most main island of Kyushu.
On 18 April 1945 the Japanese pilot of a KI-45 Toryu twin-engine fighter plane, which had already been hit by machine gun fire, flew head-on into the B-29 in a suicide attack, breaking off the bomber's right wing, #4 engine, and the tail section. The aircraft disintegrated in mid-air and all crewmembers were killed." - Clemson Scroll of Honor
Note:
When Robert married Mary Alice Bartlett in 1938, Mary gave her date of birth as March 9, 1920, making her 18 rather than her actual age of 14. On the 1940 census she's shown as single, a student and living with her parents. Robert is also listed as single on the 1940 census.
WORLD WAR II
Son of Robert Eugene and Martha Jacqueline Rhodes Adams. Robert married Mary Alice Bartlett on June 2, 1938 and was the father of Robert Eugene Adams, III, who was nine months old at the time of his father's death.
"Enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 3 August 1942 at Cochran Field near Macon, Georgia. Assigned to the Central Pacific Theater of Operations, 20th Air Force, 73rd Bomb Wing, 497th Bomb Group (Very Heavy), 871 Bomb Squadron, stationed at Isley Field on Saipan in the Mariana Islands. He flew as the Flight Engineer aboard a Boeing B-29 Superfortress nicknamed 'Gonna Mak'er' (Tail #42-65231) as part of the Group formation to bomb the Tachiarai Army Airfield, Japan's southern most main island of Kyushu.
On 18 April 1945 the Japanese pilot of a KI-45 Toryu twin-engine fighter plane, which had already been hit by machine gun fire, flew head-on into the B-29 in a suicide attack, breaking off the bomber's right wing, #4 engine, and the tail section. The aircraft disintegrated in mid-air and all crewmembers were killed." - Clemson Scroll of Honor
Note:
When Robert married Mary Alice Bartlett in 1938, Mary gave her date of birth as March 9, 1920, making her 18 rather than her actual age of 14. On the 1940 census she's shown as single, a student and living with her parents. Robert is also listed as single on the 1940 census.
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