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1LT Robert Blanton Alexander

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1LT Robert Blanton Alexander Veteran

Birth
Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, USA
Death
12 Feb 1944 (aged 26)
Rome, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy
Burial
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Plot
SECTION E SITE 216-217
Memorial ID
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-724186
487th Bomb Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, Medium

Robert B. Alexander is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Howard County, Missouri.

***I would like to thank Bobby Hunt Find A Grave ID 47510951 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank ShaneO Find A Grave ID 47009366 for adding the bio information below to this memorial***

Departed Pompei A/D on a bombing mission to Campoleone, Italy Feb 13, 1944. The aircraft was last seen after leaving the bombing and over the "Anzio Beachhead".

Crew:
1LT Joseph W Boston, Jr,Pilot
2LT Charles H Chandler, Co-Pilot
1LT Robert B Alexander, Bombardier
SSGT Woodrow Liebe, Radio/Gunner
SSGT William Isaacowitz, Gunner
SSGT Paul A Rupert, Top Gunner

Alexander was returned from Nettuno Cemetery, Italy and re interred in a common grave with three of his crew mates (Isaacowitz, Rupert, and Liebe) at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, January 19, 1950.
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-724186
487th Bomb Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, Medium

Robert B. Alexander is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Howard County, Missouri.

***I would like to thank Bobby Hunt Find A Grave ID 47510951 for adding his gravesite photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank ShaneO Find A Grave ID 47009366 for adding the bio information below to this memorial***

Departed Pompei A/D on a bombing mission to Campoleone, Italy Feb 13, 1944. The aircraft was last seen after leaving the bombing and over the "Anzio Beachhead".

Crew:
1LT Joseph W Boston, Jr,Pilot
2LT Charles H Chandler, Co-Pilot
1LT Robert B Alexander, Bombardier
SSGT Woodrow Liebe, Radio/Gunner
SSGT William Isaacowitz, Gunner
SSGT Paul A Rupert, Top Gunner

Alexander was returned from Nettuno Cemetery, Italy and re interred in a common grave with three of his crew mates (Isaacowitz, Rupert, and Liebe) at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, January 19, 1950.

Inscription

1LT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II


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