Robert George Winterburn

Military

Killed in Action (KIA) crashed near Zobbenitz in B-17 #43-37551

Connections

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

43-37551

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 12 June 1925

Buried

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA South Side Cemetery

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

Germany 28 March 1945

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Removed redundant info from Buried event.

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Updated the Buried event per Find-a-grave Memorial ID 204533063.
Added a KIA event per Find-a-grave Memorial ID 204533063.

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Added a connection to A/C #43-37551 listed in the "Summary biography".

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Betty Volk, MACR 13544,

href="http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2577">http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=2577> / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia