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SSGT Robert Emmett Drake
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SSGT Robert Emmett Drake Veteran

Birth
Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, USA
Death
28 May 1944 (aged 22)
Monument
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map
Plot
Tablets of the Missing.
Memorial ID
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Robert was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces 832nd Bomber Squadron, 486th Bomber Group, Heavy.

Service # 12121935

He entered the Service from New York

Missing in Action
[Whereas the grave markers show the date of death, the Tablets of the Missing do not, because without confirmed information to the contrary, the date of death of those who are listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea in WWII is a presumed date of death established by a military review board, usually as a year and a day from that on which the individual was placed in "missing" status. The incident date and the presumed date of death are then not the same. His declared date of death is therefore 29th May 1945]

Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart.
Robert was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces 832nd Bomber Squadron, 486th Bomber Group, Heavy.

Service # 12121935

He entered the Service from New York

Missing in Action
[Whereas the grave markers show the date of death, the Tablets of the Missing do not, because without confirmed information to the contrary, the date of death of those who are listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea in WWII is a presumed date of death established by a military review board, usually as a year and a day from that on which the individual was placed in "missing" status. The incident date and the presumed date of death are then not the same. His declared date of death is therefore 29th May 1945]

Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart.


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