Name | Belk, Robert Kirk |
Rank | Second Lieutenant |
Serial Number | O-736681 |
Unit Assignments |
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Duty | Navigator |
MOS | 1034 - Navigator |
Last Duty Date | 7 February 1944 |
Results | Transferred |
Additional Information |
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Photo Album: | Crew Photo Album⇗ |
CREWMEMBER | POSITION | RESULTS |
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2nd Lt. Ritt, Louis Eskel⇗ | Pilot | POW |
2nd Lt. Rabby, Carlos James, Jr⇗ | Co-pilot | CT |
2nd Lt. Belk, Robert Kirk | Navigator | TR |
2nd Lt. Crown, Richard Keith, "Snake"⇗ | Bombardier | CT |
S/SGT. Compton, James Harold⇗ | Radio Operator / Gunner | CT |
SGT. Birnbaum, Lester (NMI)⇗ | Engineer / Top Turret Gunner | TBD |
S/SGT. Heintzelman, David Leroy⇗ | Ball Turret Gunner | CT |
S/SGT. Greene, Frank Palmer⇗ | Tail Gunner | TBD |
S/SGT. Stamm, Murray Raymond⇗ | Flexible Gunner | CT |
S/SGT. Myers, Guy Albert⇗ | Flexible Gunner | KIA |
Number | Date | Target | Position | Aircraft | Mission/Sortie Information |
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28⇗ | 4 October 1943 |
Type: Industry Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
Navigator | 42‑5086⇗ |
Combat Mission Credit Landed away at RAF Bradwell Bay due to low fuel. Sortie Report⇗ |
30⇗ | 9 October 1943 |
Target: Aircraft Factories Type: Aircraft Industry Location: Anklam, Germany |
Navigator | 42‑5086⇗ |
Combat Mission Credit Sortie Report⇗ |
31⇗ | 10 October 1943 |
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards Type: Transportation Location: Münster, Germany |
Navigator | 42‑5086⇗ |
Combat Mission Credit Crew bailed out near Ipswich; aircraft continued in flight and crash-landed at Eye, Suffolk, killing a cow. Sortie Report⇗ |
33⇗ | 20 October 1943 |
Target: Railroad Marshalling Yards Type: Transportation Location: Düren, Germany |
Navigator | 42‑29723⇗ |
Aborted Mission After Taking Off Sortie Report⇗ |
--⇗ | 30 October 1943 |
Target: Marshaling Yard Type: Transportation Location: Geilenkirchen, Germany |
Navigator | 42‑31058⇗ | Sortie Report⇗ |
45⇗ | 22 December 1943 |
Target: Steel Shops/Railroad Marshalling Yards Type: Transportation Location: Osnabrück, Germany |
Navigator | 42‑29717⇗ |
Combat Mission Credit Sortie Report⇗ |
47⇗ | 30 December 1943 |
Target: I. G. Farben Industrie, Chemical/Synthetic Rubber Plants Type: Industry Location: Ludwigshafen, Germany |
Navigator | 41‑24560⇗ |
Aborted Mission After Taking Off Composite Squadron; turned back at 1016 hrs because of oxygen failure in top turret; system dropped to zero and after it was recharged to 250 lbs it again dropped to 120 lbs in 15 mins; 18 M47A1s rtd Sortie Report⇗ |
48⇗ | 31 December 1943 |
Target: Blockade Runner 'Orsone' (name of ship) Type: Transportation Location: [Mouth of River Garonne], France |
Navigator | 42‑37727⇗ |
Combat Mission Credit Landed away at Alconbury; bombs returned. Sortie Report⇗ |
50⇗ | 5 January 1944 |
Target: Port Area Type: Transportation Location: Kiel, Germany |
Navigator | 42‑39784⇗ |
Combat Mission Credit Bomb load included 'Nickles' (propaganda leaflets) in addition to six 500-pound bombs. Sortie Report⇗ |
54⇗ | 21 January 1944 |
Target: NOBALL (V-1 Launch Site) Type: CROSSBOW (V-Weapons) Location: Preuseville, France |
Navigator | 42‑3429⇗ |
Combat Mission Credit 41A Group. Sortie Report⇗ |
56⇗ | 30 January 1944 |
Target: Aircraft Assembly Plant Type: Aircraft Industry Location: Brunswick / Braunschweig, Germany |
Co-pilot | 41‑24560⇗ |
Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off Low group high Squadron. Did not take off. Sortie Report⇗ |