Robert P. Blakely     Photo: AS 25 MAY 2015   Updated:  18 JUN 2015

Airman: e556032.htm Surname: Blakely Init: R P Rank: 2ndLt Service: USAAF Sqdn: 550

P_link: p198.htm Plane: B17 423316 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Heligoland

Crash_d: d280743 Buried_d: e556a C_link: e556a.htm At_Next: Ardennes, BELGIUM

Den 28. juli 1943 styrtede B17 42-3316 i Nordsøen ud for Helgoland på udturen af et
bombetogt til Warnemünde (her). Hele besætningen omkom.

2nd Lieutenant Robert P. Blakely var Co-Pilot på B17 42-3316. (Kilde: AOD)
Han blev begravet på Ardennes American Cemetery Plot C Row 15 Grave 17.
Han kom i tjeneste fra Oregon. Hæderstegn: Purple Heart. (Kilde: ABMC)

1 flyver fra B17 42-3316 blev begravet i Esbjerg, 1 i USA og 7 i Belgien. 1 navn NO - NET.

MACR p196 B17 42-30401: "4 amerikanske bombefly styrtede i Nordsøen mellem den tyske
kyst og Helgoland den morgen." (Måske omkring her).
De 3 af dem må være B17 42-30401 * B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.

Se tegning af besætningen på en B-17, Foto af en B-17 + B-17 i airmen.dk samt
B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition og Ball Turret Gunner. 10 flyvere.

On 28 July 1943 B17 42-3316 crashed into the North Sea off Heligoland on the outward
flight of a bombing raid on Warnemünde (here). All of the crew perished.

2nd Lieutenant Robert P. Blakely was the Co-Pilot of B17 42-3316. (Source: AOD)
He was buried at Ardennes American Cemetery Plot C Row 15 Grave 17.
He entered the Service from Oregon. Awards: Purple Heart. (Source: ABMC)

1 airman from B17 42-3316 was buried in Esbjerg,1 in the USA, 7 airmen in Belgium.1 NO - NET.

MACR p196 B17 42-30401: "4 USAAF bombers crashed in the North Sea between German Coast and Heligoland that morning." (Maybe about here).
3 of them must be B17 42-30401 * B17 42-3316 * B17 42-30394.

See a drawing of the crew of a B-17 * Photo of  a B-17 + B-17s in airmen.dk * B-17 Ball Turret, Ammunition and the story of a Ball Turret Gunner.
550 BS, 385 BG, 93 CBW, 3BD. This B-17 took off from RAF Great Ashfield - USAAF Station 138. 10 airmen.