Name:
Robert William Metlen
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
39900663
Unit:
339th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group
Date of Death:
2007-10-30
State:
Montana
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Ventral Gunner of the B-17 "Shack Rabbit III". His first parachute failed, but the reserve opened and he was taken by resistance forces into France. He lived in Paris for a while, but he eventually traveled south to the Pyrenees where he was picked up by plane and sent back to England.