Missing information?
Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?
Submit- Full
name
SUDBURY, Robert E - Date of
birth
1922 -
Age
unknown - Place of
birth
Florida -
Hometown
Bradenton, Manatee County, Florida
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
14064918 -
Rank
Staff Sergeant -
Function
Left Waist Gunner -
Unit
337th Bombardment Squadron,
96th Bombardment Group, Heavy
-
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal
Death
-
Status
Missing in Action - Date of
death
16 December 1943 - Place of
death
Kimswerd, the Netherlands
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten - Walls of the Missing
Immediate family
-
Members
Leroy Sudbury (father)
Lee M. Sudbury (mother)
Edith H. Sudbury (sister)
Plane data
- Serial
number
42-3265 -
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Holy Mackeral
Destination: Bremen Germany
Mission: Bombing of the port area
MACR: 1568/1567
More information
S/Sgt Robert E. Sudbury attended Manatee High School and was a clerk.He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Camp Blanding, Florida on 8 January 1942.
When the B-17 #42-30860 was attacked by fighters, witnesses saw it exploded and, when going down, colliding with #42-3265 between the Dutch mainland and the Frisian Islands east of Texel.
Nine crew members were killed, one survived and was taken prisoner.
S/Sgt Sudbury's photo has been enshrined in a place of honor outside the media center at Manatee High School, along with other students from the school who died in World War II.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, André Koch, Terry Hirsch, Angie Monroe, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.fold3.com - MACR 1568 / 1567, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census, http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article65205212.html
Photo source: André Koch, Bradenton Herald - Jim Jones, Manatee High School