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1st Lt Robert K. Lammers graduated from Hedgesville High School and attended the school of forestry at Montana State University.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Washington, District of Columbia on 14 February 1942.

On the return flight, Fw-190 fighters attacking from the rear at five o'clock hit the airplane. Pieces of the elevator were seen to fall off. A part of the left wing, and flap andalso aileron were seen to fly off. The left engine was afire. It then peeled off to the left and dived just before it entered a cloud bank in a steep dive. Fire appeared to be catching on the tail. The airplane gave the impression that an attempt was being made to regain control.

This was the 39th mission of Lt Lammers.

T/Sgt Julian F. Baggett and 1st Lt Robert K. Lammers ware remembered at the Walls of the Missing at Magraten. The other crew members John H. Falls, Robert E. Evans, Henry E. McGill and Ernest E. Coe are remembered at the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge.

At the time of Lt Lammers' death, two off his brothers were also serving: T/Sgt G.D. Lammers in Europe, and 1st Lt F.Q. Lammers in the Southwest Pacific.