2nd Lt Morris graduated at the Snohomish Grade School in 1934, at the Tekoa High School in 1938 and attended the Easter Washington College between September 1939 and June 1941. He worked for the Kinzua White Pine Mills Company in Oregon as a chainman where he left when he entered the service on 1 February 1943.
Statement from William J. Carlson, T/Sgt, 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group:
"I first observed aircraft B-17G, 42-102504, to be in trouble at about 30 seconds to one minute after bombs away. I saw the no. 2 engine smoking badly and there appeared to be flames between the no. 2 engine and the fuselage. The right wing and engines appeared to be untouched. The aircraft then nosed upward, stood on the right wing tip and side slipped downward in a steep dive. After it had fallen for a couple of hundred feet I saw one man leave the aircraft and his parachute opened immediately. The aircraft continued downward in a steep circling dive to the right. I instructed the Ball Turret Gunner of our ship to watch it go down and he stated that only the one parachute came from the subject aircraft before it crashed and burned."
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Statement from William J. Carlson, T/Sgt, 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group:
"I first observed aircraft B-17G, 42-102504, to be in trouble at about 30 seconds to one minute after bombs away. I saw the no. 2 engine smoking badly and there appeared to be flames between the no. 2 engine and the fuselage. The right wing and engines appeared to be untouched. The aircraft then nosed upward, stood on the right wing tip and side slipped downward in a steep dive. After it had fallen for a couple of hundred feet I saw one man leave the aircraft and his parachute opened immediately. The aircraft continued downward in a steep circling dive to the right. I instructed the Ball Turret Gunner of our ship to watch it go down and he stated that only the one parachute came from the subject aircraft before it crashed and burned."
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-m/58273-morris-robert-f
2nd Lt Morris graduated at the Snohomish Grade School in 1934, at the Tekoa High School in 1938 and attended the Easter Washington College between September 1939 and June 1941. He worked for the Kinzua White Pine Mills Company in Oregon as a chainman where he left when he entered the service on 1 February 1943.
Statement from William J. Carlson, T/Sgt, 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group:
"I first observed aircraft B-17G, 42-102504, to be in trouble at about 30 seconds to one minute after bombs away. I saw the no. 2 engine smoking badly and there appeared to be flames between the no. 2 engine and the fuselage. The right wing and engines appeared to be untouched. The aircraft then nosed upward, stood on the right wing tip and side slipped downward in a steep dive. After it had fallen for a couple of hundred feet I saw one man leave the aircraft and his parachute opened immediately. The aircraft continued downward in a steep circling dive to the right. I instructed the Ball Turret Gunner of our ship to watch it go down and he stated that only the one parachute came from the subject aircraft before it crashed and burned."
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-m/58273-morris-robert-f
Statement from William J. Carlson, T/Sgt, 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group:
"I first observed aircraft B-17G, 42-102504, to be in trouble at about 30 seconds to one minute after bombs away. I saw the no. 2 engine smoking badly and there appeared to be flames between the no. 2 engine and the fuselage. The right wing and engines appeared to be untouched. The aircraft then nosed upward, stood on the right wing tip and side slipped downward in a steep dive. After it had fallen for a couple of hundred feet I saw one man leave the aircraft and his parachute opened immediately. The aircraft continued downward in a steep circling dive to the right. I instructed the Ball Turret Gunner of our ship to watch it go down and he stated that only the one parachute came from the subject aircraft before it crashed and burned."
https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-margraten-m/58273-morris-robert-f
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