JACKSON, Robert E

Servicenumber:

18166481

Age:

Not available

Born:

1922

Hometown:

Garland County, Arkansas

Family:

Lula Jackson (Mother)

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Function:

Ball Turret Gunner

Regiment:

-

Battalion:

-

Division – Transport:

-

Company – Squadron:

350th Bomb Squadron

Unit – Group:

100th Bomb Group (Heavy)

Plane data:
(Serialnumber, MACR, etc.)

Serialnumber: 43-37882
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Happy Go Lucky
Destination: Berlin, Germany
MACR: 9509

Date of death:

6 October 1944

Status:

KIA

Place of death:

10 km west of Spandau, Germany

Spot:

Ringstrasse 51/6, Finkenkrug, Germany

Awards:

Air Medal, Purple Heart

Gravenumber:

Plot: A, Row: 8, Grave: 15

Cemetery:

American War Cemetery Ardennes

Biography:

-

Other information:

A/C #882 received a direct flak burst between engines 2 and 1. The wing burst into flame and A/C peeled off, spinning and burning. No parachutes were seen.
The bomb load detonated some time after the crash and killed a German woman who was attempting to assist the crew. Eight bodies were recovered as "unknows' and buried in the communal cemetery of Falkensee (Germany).
In August 1947 four crew members were positively identified and returned to the USA. At the request of next of kin the unidentified were buried in Ardennes in two adjoining graves. There is a gravestone between the two crosses with the names of the buried crewmen.