Robert Vallilee
MilitaryAssigned Sept 1944
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Agony Wagon III
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Events
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Revisions
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my Dads service number was 059166347, same as his SSAN.
to my knowledge he never lived in Ohio
Taken out '059166347' from service number and replaced with '32732325' from enlistment record: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=2&tf=F&q=Val…
I saw the ribbon with the oak leaf cluster in my father's personal memorabilia. His headstone from the Dept of Veteran Affairs includes a citation of this award. He is buried in the St Joseph's Catholic cemetery in Waverly, NY.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Snetterton Falcons, pg 194