World War II Honoree
Killed in World War II
Robert J. Fitzgerald
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Honored By
Stephen Savage
MAJOR, SERVED AS COMMANDER IN THE 500TH BOMB GROUP, 20TH AIR FORCE, 73RD BOMB WING. IN A FIRE BOMB MISSION OVER KOBE, JAPAN, HIS B-29 AIRCRAFT WAS SHOT DOWN AND HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, MARCH 17, 1945.