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Personal info

Full name
KNOX, Robert Miller
Date of birth
30 September 1914
Age
28
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O-438010
Rank
Captain
Function
Pilot
Unit
418th Bombardment Squadron,
100th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 August 1943
Place of death
Herbesthal
Lontzen, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 12 18

Immediate family

Members
Miller G. Knox (father)
Helene Knox (mother)
Dorothy E. Knox (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-30063
Data
Type: B-17F
Nickname: Picklepuss
Destination: Regensburg, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the Messerschmitt aviation industry
MACR: 677

More information

Robert Knox attended college and was a salesman.

He joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 17 July 1941.

The airplane was shot down by enemy fighters.

Four crew members were taken prisoner, six men were killed. They were initially buried at the Ehrenfriedhof of Eupen, Belgium on 19 August 1943.

The crew was on it's 6th mission, and the plane was on it's 11th.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, Carla Mans, NARA, www.100thbg.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men

Photo source: Michael P. Faley 100th Bomb Group Historian/ Photo Archives, RememberMuseum.com / Marcel and Mathilde Schmetz, Arie-Jan van Hees, Pilot Class Book 42-B, Curtis Field, Brady, Texas