350th Bomb Squadron

Rowland Hetrick Mission Diary 12 B

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100 BG / 350 BS
2LT SPEAS, ROBERT E.
From Rochester, New York.
KIA 8-10-1943 as co-pilot of B-17F / #42-30840 / MACR 0951. Target: Bremen, germany. Hit by fak and crashed near Oedinghausen, 9 miles west of Hoya, Germany. 5 KIA / 5 POW.
2Lt Speas is buried at Ardennes Cemetery, D-19-19.
Also see https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-ardennes-s/46271-speas-robert-e
Source of the portrait photograph: Pilot Class Book 43-E, Stamford Flying School, Arledge, Texas.
Courtesy of my Fields of Honor Database colleague Corrina who indexed this class book.

Robert Speas
Sgt. Richard Cawley

Richard Cawley
Flak saved by Herman Horenkamp from the June 1944 mission to Berlin.

Herman Horenkamp

Emil Busch and Ralph Weaver