Harry A Robey Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOUR10-Jul-1942 Assigned as Pilot of B-17F #41-24619 [GN-S] "S-for-Sugar", 303BG/427BS at Alamogordo Field, Alamogordo, New Mexico. It appears from available records that he and his crew were re-assigned to B-17F #42-2966 at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine on or about 5-Oct-42. He, his crew and B-17F #42-2966 arrived at Molesworth, UK on 28-Oct-42.
B-17F #41-24619 arrived at Molesworth, UK piloted by MAJ Charles C. Sheridan, CO 427BS on 25-Oct-42.
Shot down 23 January 1943 in B-17F #41-24584 'Susfu' while serving as Pilot the aircraft was shot down and crashed at Abbey Pleyben near Edern, France. Killed in Action (KIA) by National Archives and 303BG records. No MACR was issued
He participated in 5 Operations (3 were Aborted) See Biography events.
NOTE: This entry COMBINES data Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database.
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Kali
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Susfu
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: S For Sugar
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: No 11 Combat Crew Replacement Center No 1 Combat Crew Replacement Center 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 23 January 1943
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 23 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 18 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 17 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Assigned to Aircraft |
Alamogordo, NM 88310, USA | 10 July 1942 | Assigned as Pilot with crew of B-17F 41-24619 "S-for-Sugar", 303BG/427BS at Alamogordo Field, Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
Other Change in Aircraft Assignment |
Bangor, ME, USA | 5 October 1942 | Re-assigned, with crew, to B-17F 42-2966, 303BG/427BS at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine. |
Other Arrived in UK |
Molesworth, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28, UK | 28 October 1942 | Arrived at Molesworth, UK as Pilot of B-17F 42966, 303BG/427BS. |
Other Mission #1, 1LT Harry A. Robey, w/B-17F 42-2966, 303BG/427BS - Aborted |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 17 November 1942 | Served as Pilot of B-17F 42-2966, 303BG/427BG on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France, but mechanical failures forced him to abort the sortie. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #2, 1LT Harry A. Robey, w/B-17F 42-2966, 303BG/427BS - Aborted |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 18 November 1942 | Served as Pilot of B-17F 42-2966, 303BG/427BG on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France, but mechanical failures forced him to abort the sortie. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #3, 1LT Harry A. Robey, w/B-17F 41-24517, 303BG/427BS |
Saint-Nazaire, France | 23 November 1942 | Served as Pilot of B-17 41-24517 "Kali", 303BG/427BS on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France. RTB OK. |
Other Mission #4, 1LT Harry A. Robey, w/B-17F 42-2966, 303BG/427BS - Aborted |
Romilly-sur-Seine, France | 20 December 1942 | Served as Pilot of B-17F 42-2966, 303BG/427BG on a mission to bomb the German air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France, but mechanical failures forced him to abort the sortie. RTB OK. |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Edern, France | 23 January 1943 | Killed when aircraft crashed near Abbey Pleyben near Edern, France. No MACR was ever issued to document this loss, so the circumstances are unknown. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) does not have a record that this airman was ever interred in an American cemetery in Europe or on a Wall of the Missing. It is probably that no remains were ever recovered. |
Other Mission #5, 1LT Harry A. Robey, w/B-17F 41-24584, 303BG/427BS - KIA |
Lorient, France | 23 January 1943 | Served as Pilot of B-17F 41-24584 "Susfu", 303BG/427BG on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. The aircraft was shot donw by German fighters and he was Killed in Action KIA. |
Born |
Sanat Clara, California |
Revisions
Added a "#" to all the A/C serial numbers in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity.
Lee Cunningham 21-Dec-2015. Correcting typo in Assigned to Aircraft event Description.
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Mission #5 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 23-Jan-43: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/011.pdf
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Mission #4 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 23-Nov-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/004.pdf
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Mission #3 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 23-Nov-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/004.pdf
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Mission #2 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 18-Nov-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/002.pdf
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Mission #1 event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Mission Report of 17-Nov-42: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/001.pdf
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Arrived in UK event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Harry A. Robey crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-427-robey.html
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Change in Aircraft Aircraft event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Harry A. Robey crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-427-robey.html
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added Assigned to Aircraft event per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Harry A. Robey crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-427-robey.html
Lee Cunningham 19-Dec-2015. Added biography information from 10-Jul-42 through 25-Oct-42 to Summary Biography per 303BG website, Gary Moncur, Historian, Harry A. Robey crew page: http://www.303rdbg.com/c-427-robey.html; made connections to Aircraft and Missions per 303BG website Mission Reports: http://www.303rdbg.com/
Lee Cunningham 22-Jan-2015 . Added NOTE and source to Biography for information combined from DUPLICATE entry.
Lee Cunningham 22-Jan-2015. Added SN and KIA event per 303rd Bomb Group website and crew list; Edited Biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th AIr Forces" Stan Bishop & john A. Hey MBE; made connections to PLace, AIrcraft and Mission within existing website data.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 66, National Archives web site