Robert F Pipes

Military
media-17257.jpeg UPL 17257 Crew #408
Frank V. Cotner Crew
466th BG - 784th BS

Standing Left to Right: Ralph J. Fiskow (BTG), H.L. Heafner (LWG), Charles H. Doring (R/O), Edward L. Mount (TG), Robert F. Pipes (FE)

Kneeling Left to Right: Frank V. Cotner (P), Edward W. Dwan (CP), Melvin H. Everding (N), Norman H. Roth (B)

This original 466th BG crew was shot down on their 11th mission, 29 April 1944. Dwan was not on board that day and was replaced by John B. Stuart. Also Robert J. Falk had joined the crew as a waist gunner and was the only man KIA when they were shot down. Pipes and Heafner were evadees. The rest were made POW. 466th Bomb Group collection

Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom

Object Number - UPL 17257 - Crew #408 Frank V. Cotner Crew 466th BG - 784th BS Standing Left to Right: Ralph J. Fiskow (BTG), H.L. Heafner (LWG), Charles H. Doring (R/O),...

Shot down 29 April 1944 in B-24 #4229399 'Play Boy. ' Evaded.

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Units served with

Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'

466th Bomb Group

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

People

Franklynn V Cotner

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O 803568
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

41-29399

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Play Boy
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 784th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Attlebridge

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

24 December 1918

Other

Evaded

29 April 1944

Died

Shot Down

1 January 2016 - 29 April 1944 Heafner, Mount and Fiskow, the gunners; Doring the radio operator; Roth, the bombardier, Stuart the Co-pilot; Cotner, the pilot and I, jumped at about 10,000 feet. Falk had been killed in the attach and was still in the aircraft. Heafner and I, the two southerners, would evade capture by being hidden from the Nazis for more that a year. - Robert Pipes

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Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a separator to aid readability.

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Playboy Crew 1943-1944 Memoirs of WWII , The Men of B-24 Liberator 41-29399

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466th BG Historian

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4448 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

Robert F Pipes: Gallery (2 items)

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