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Personal info

Full name
MAC DOWELL, Robert Earl
Date of birth
14 November 1921
Age
22
Place of birth
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
O-801627
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
368th Bombardment Squadron,
306th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 April 1944
Place of death
Haimhausen, north of Munich, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 3 56

Immediate family

Members
George E. Mac Dowell (father)
Sarah E. (Paul) Mac Dowell (mother)
Paula Mac Dowell (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-30586
Data
Type: B-17F
Destination: Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the airfield
MACR: 4239

More information

2nd Lt Robert E. Mac Dowell worked in a machine shop.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Boston, Massachusetts on 22 March 1942.

At approximately 1325 hours, near Augsburg, Germany, the B-17 was hit flak and attacked by fighters. No. 4 engine was smoking and it peeled out of formation.

2nd Lt Mac Dowell had been killed by shrapnel.

He was initially buried at the cemetery of Hochmutting, Germany on 26 April 1944 and after the war at first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of St. Avold, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com – Richard Paul, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census, www.fold3.com, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, North High School 1940