Robert Arthur Gallup

Military
media-56633.jpeg UPL 56633 Capt Robert A. Gallup, 445BG.

USAAF Photo

Object Number - UPL 56633 - Capt Robert A. Gallup, 445BG.

Assigned to 700BS, 445BG, 8AF USAAF. Shot down over Munich on 23rd mission 11-Jul-44 in B-24 42-7571 'Lillian Ann II'. Landed in Switzerland, Interned (INT).





Awards: AM (3OLC), WWII Victory, EAME (2 x Battle Stars).

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

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

People

William C Bridges

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34436523
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

William J Cleary

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32696959
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Jerome Milton Heller

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36305556
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Nose Gunner

Edward T Kornacki

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32766787
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Homer Howard Moultrie

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34097154 / O-814946
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Aircraft

B-24 Liberators of the 389th Bomb Group and (serial number 42-7571) of the 392nd Bomb Group flyn in formation during a mission.

42-7571

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Lillian Ann II
  • Unit: 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron

Places

Signal Squares on the airfield at Tibenham, B-24 Liberators of the 398th Bomb Group are visible in the background. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Tibenham Signal Squares.'

Tibenham

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Tivetshall

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Grundy, IL 3 May 1923

Other

Interned (INT)

Switzerland 11 July 1944 Shot down over Munich on 23rd mission 11-Jul-44 in B-24 42-7571 'Lillian Ann II'. Landed in Switzerland, Interned (INT).

Died

Hot Springs, AR 17 April 2016

Buried

Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Elwood, Will County, IL 20 April 2016 Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Elwood, Will County, Illinois
Verona, IL

Based

Tibenham 11 June 1944 Assigned to 700BS, 445BG, 8AF USAAF.

Revisions

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https://www.fold3.com/image/654258363
https://www.fold3.com/record/716844219/gallup-robert-arthur-us-veterans…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162033301/robert-arthur-gallup

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Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, MACR 6943 & Page 272 in the book SECOND AIR DIVISION by Turner Publishing Co, 1998 edition

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Object number: UPL 56633 - Capt Robert A. Gallup, 445BG.