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416th Bombardment Group (L) 1Lt. Robert Ross ("Swede") Svenson Pilot, O-752453 Killed In Action - Dec 25, 1944 668th Bombardment Squadron (L) |
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416th Bombardment Group (L) 1Lt. Robert Ross ("Swede") Svenson Pilot, O-752453 Killed In Action - Dec 25, 1944 668th Bombardment Squadron (L) |
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Born: 1919, New Jersey
Entered Military Service: Date: 20-Mar-1942 At: Ft Benjamin Harrison, IN From: Cuyahoga County, Ohio NARA Enlistment Record: Enlisted Serial # 35044028 Buried: Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Hombourg, Belgium, Plot F Row 12 Grave 27 On-line Memorials: National World War II Registry Overseas American Cemeteries American Battle Monuments Commission Memorial, Certificate Find-A-Grave Fields of Honor Database |
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Six Clevelanders Among War Dead; Three in Pacific Two killed in Same PlaneOver Belgium; One in Holland Lieut. Robert R. Svenson, 25, husband of Mrs. Orsula Svenson, 2212 Delarare Drive, Cleveland Heights, and sone of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Svenson, 2210 E. 224th Street, Euclid, killed Dec. 25 over Belgium. Sergt. Philip G. Fild, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Fild, 9421 Denison Avenue S.W., killed Dec. 25 over Belgium while serving as a gunner on the plane piloted by Lieut. Svenson. Piloting Invader Lieut. Svenson was piloting an Invader fighter-bomber in which he and Sergt. Fild were killed when the plane was hit by antiaircraft fire over Belgium. Lieut. Svenson was an East High School graduate and worked for the Platers Supply Co. Besides his wife and parents, he is survived by a brother, Corp. George B. Jr., at Camp Perry, and two sisters Mrs. Richard Carleton, Jr., and Miss Dorothy Svenson. Sert. Fild attended West Technical High School and worked for the S. K. Wllman Co. Two sisters, Mrs. Thelma Danzey and Mrs. Helen White, survive him in addition to his parents. Extracted from Newspapers.com |
See also 1Lt Robert Ross Svenson Individual Deceased Personnel File (IDPF)
(FOIA request fulfilled by Government Information Specialist Bryan K. Jolly, Fort Knox, KY)
Disclaimer: IDPF files document efforts to locate, identify, move, notify relatives and provide final resting for Soldier Dead,
often months or years after death, thus some pages may contain potentially disturbing or distressing information.
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See also MACR 11667 and Mission # 177
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