Operation: Bomber escort
Date: 30th July 1943
Unit: No. 62nd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group
Type: P47C Thunderbolt
Serial: 41-6209
Code: LM-C
Base: RAF Halesworth Suffolk
Location: Oudelandsedijk, Oude Tonge, Holland
Pilot: 1st. Lt Robert Eugene Stover O-661392 USAAF Age 21. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
Weather conditions: Good. Visibility Excellent. Time: 10:00 hrs. Shot down after a dogfight with Hauptmann Siegfried Schnell of III./JG 54
The aircraft was last seen smoking and going down over Walcheren Island by an unidentified pilot from the 4th fighter group. Some 17 x P-47’s took part in a search for the pilot from the base to within 40 miles of the Dutch coast but without success.
Burial details:
1st. Lt Robert Eugene Stover. Ardennes American Cemetery, Belgium. Plot B. Row 43. Grave 21.
Researched by Michel Beckers for Aircrew Remembered - July 2016. Photographs of aircraft courtesy Steve Fleming, grave photo courtesy Dominique Potier, memorial courtesy Anneke Moerenhout - others from Nigel Julian and the Michel Beckers collection.
MB 16-07-2016
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