World War II Honoree

Robert Pattison Felgar, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Tucson, Arizona

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: First Lieutenant. On May 28, 1942, he entered the United States Army Air Corps at San Antonio, Texas. Served as a Pilot in a B-17G ‘Flying Fortress’ Bomber, assigned to the 526th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 41st Combat Bomb Wing, 1st Bomb Division; a subordinate unit of the United States Eighth ‘Mighty Eighth’ Army Air Corps. His squadron was based at the Royal Air Force Station in Kimbolton Huntington, Cambridgeshire in Great Britain, Army Air Force Station #117. The Flying Fortress came under attack, shot down by German anti-aircraft Artillery fire on a bombing raid to Oranienburg, Germany; Sunday, August 13, 1944 and crashed near Falaise, France. Captured by the German Armed forces after bailing out, he was incarcerated at the German Prisoner of War Camp Stalag 7A Moosburg, Bavaria for 11½ months, and repatriated July 26, 1945. He received the following decorations and citation: The PURPLE HEART AND Distinguished Flying Cross; AWARDED FOR heroism AND extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight. This Lieutenant, an American Patriot, so gallantly served in the defense of his country.