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Archive Report: US Forces
1941 - 1945
Compiled from official National Archive and Service sources, contemporary press reports, personal logbooks, diaries and correspondence, reference books, other sources, and interviews.
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30.07.1943 62nd Fighter Squadron P-47C 41-6209 LM-C 1st. Lt. Robert E. Stover

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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