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Last Address 2027 N. Sawyer Ave. Chicago, Ill
Date of Passing Jun 28, 1964
Location of Interment Queen of Heaven Cemetery - Hillside, Illinois
Wall/Plot Coordinates Grave4. Lot 56.Block 1B.Section 2B.
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Army Service Number: 36-651-850
He was a High School graduate of Mooseheart High School Illinois, 17 June, 1939.
He enlisted on 24 March 1943 in Chicago, Ill as an Army Air Force Clerk Typist for the HHC Headquarters of the 302nd Air Transport Wing. His unit was was base in 1943 in 519th Grove Berkshire (Royal Air Force Station Grove), Great Britian, in 1944 after the invasion of Europe; in 1 Rue de Tillsit 8 Arrondisement, near the Arc of Triumph, Paris, France and later in Belgium in 1945.
In March 1945 a commendation letter from Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, A.E.F. to Colonel Martin A. Bateman, Commander, 302nd Transport Wing, Army Air Corps, and to the men under his command; two messages on the version of D.D.E.'s letter: the first from Col. Bateman to his crews, and the second from Lt. Col. K.A. Reecher, Commander, 27th Air Transport Group, 302nd Transport Wing to the squadrons in his group, relaying Eisenhower's commendation of their repatriation flights.
His Parents were Francis Richard Byron and his Mother, Helen Cecilia Devers. Robert worked as a Clerk in civil life after separtion from military service. He married to the former Mrs Madeleine Germaine Schopin ( Newly Byron) in 1945 in Paris, France. He returned to Chicago to raise a family in January, 1946. Madeleine Germaine Byron remarried later on after his death in 1964. To Edward Maguire of Oregon .
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Rhineland Campaign (1944-45)
From Month/Year
September / 1944
To Month/Year
March / 1945
Description (Rhineland Campaign 15 September 1944 to 21 March 1945) Attempting to outflank the Siegfried Line, the Allies tried an airborne attack on Holland on 17 September 1944. But the operation failed, and the enemy was able to strengthen his defensive line from Holland to Switzerland. Little progress was made on the ground, but the aerial attacks on strategic targets continued. Then, having regained the initiative after defeating a German offensive in the Ardennes in December 1944, the Allies drove through to the Rhine, establishing a bridgehead across the river at Remagen.
