World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
Robert Thomas Dunn
Branch of Service
U.S. Navy
Hometown
Newark, New Jersey
Honored By
Eileen, Maureen, Bonnie, Sheila and Robert A. Dunn
Relationship
Children
He was stationed on Tinian Island, in the Mariana Islands. After a U.S. naval bombardment nearly destroyed the airfield in Tinian in July, 1944, the U.S. Navy Construction Battalions (Seabees) started building it up again so that the B-29 Superfortress bombers could launch from the island.