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Personal info

Full name
LYNCH, Robert James
Date of birth
23 June 1917
Age
26
Place of birth
Winchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Winchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31165179
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Left Waist Gunner
Unit
351st Bombardment Squadron,
100th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 October 1943
Place of death
Vinnenberger Forest, Warendorf-Ostbevern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 13 16

Immediate family

Members
Andrew H. Lynch (father)
Mary M. (Degnan) Lynch (mother)
Mary E. Lynch (halfsister)
Helen A. Lynch (halfsister)
Thomas H. Lynch (brother)
Catherine F. Lynch (sister)
Theresa M. Lynch (sister)
Gertrude A. Lynch (sister)
Andrew E. Lynch (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-30723
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Sexy Suzy, Mother Of Ten aka Holy Terror
Destination: Münster, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the railroad
MACR: 1027

More information

S/Sgt Robert J. Lynch was an attendant at a filling station.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 29 August 1942.

The airplane collided with a Me 109 en went down on fire and exploded.

Four crew members were taken prisoner, six were killed. They were initially buried at the Catholic cemetery of Ostbevern on 14 and 16 October 1943.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.100thbg.com, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.footnote.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920 Census, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.8thafhs.com, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Michel Beckers / www.100thbg.com, Jasper van Haren