Robert Carl Boese
MilitaryKIA, in crash on 8 June 1944 at Plantation Farm (3/4 mile north from Shippea Hill Station / Burntfen), Cambridgeshire - England (52°26'41"N / 0°24'45"E).
Crew had already taken-off for mission cancelled and was granted permission to remain in
flight for navigation training.
Aircraft touched the ground, 1 mile from the place of crash, where the #4 propellor and parts of the cowlings from #2, 3 and 4 engines were later found. Aircraft left the ground, went into a flat spin to the right and crashed.
42-97132 exploded on contact with the ground, the second time.
RAF Bomb Disposal Flight No 6213 Cambridge disarmed bombs.
AAF accident report: 44-6-8-529.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-815825
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-812941
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17003857
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-754744
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-695439
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Silver Lady
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: Knettishall
- Site type: Other
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: St Mary's Church, Coney Weston
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Born |
Bloomer, Wisconsin | 14 February 1919 | |
|
Died |
Plantation Farm, Burnt Fen, Cambridgeshire | 8 June 1944 | KIA, in crash at Plantation Farm, Burnt Fen, Shippea Hill Station, Cambridgeshire. |
|
Buried |
Cornell Cemetery, Cornell, WI | Initially buried at Cambridge. |
Revisions
ancestry.com
findagrave memorial #203604581
accident report correspondence dated 24 Oct 1944
Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces, volume 3
Stan D Bishop & John A Hey, MBE
Bishop’s Books
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP28 6NY
©2009
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html