Robert G Fenstermacher
MilitaryFighter 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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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Brétigny-sur-Orge
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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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 |