Robert G Fenstermacher

Military
media-38089.jpeg UPL 38089 1LT Robert G. Fenstermacher
Fighter Pilot
404th FG - 506th FS - 9th AF
KIA - 26 December 1944

Object Number - UPL 38089 - 1LT Robert G. Fenstermacher Fighter Pilot 404th FG - 506th FS - 9th AF KIA - 26 December 1944

Army Air Force 1st Lt. Robert G. Fenstermacher, of Scranton, was a P-47D pilot who crashed in Belgium in December 1944 during an armed-reconnaissance mission against targets in Germany. He was 23.

Fenstermacher was declared Killed in Action but his remains could not immediately be recovered after the crash. Following the war, the U.S. Army interviewed a local Belgian woman who said an aircraft crashed into the side of her house, but the crash site couldn’t be located. In 2012 a group of local historians with NGO History Flight excavated a private yard in Petergensfeld, Belgium, recovering human remains that were identified as Fenstermacher’s.

http://www.miaproject.net/mia-search-recoveries/petergensfeld/

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/Recent-News-Stories/Article/579550/ww…

www.historyflight.com

https://www.fold3.com/page/529873879/robert-fenstermacher

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  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Brétigny-sur-Orge

Events

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Born

Scranton, Pennsylvania 12 December 1921

Died

near Petergensfeld, Belgium 26 December 1944

Buried

18 October 2013 Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virginia, USA Section: 60 Grave: 10353

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