Robert A. Walsh was born on March 1, 1920. He spent one year at the College as a member of the class of 1941 between his freshman year at Pennsylvania State University and his graduation from the University of Scranton. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps three weeks after Pearl Harbor and trained in Alabama before basic flight school at Shaw Field in South Carolina and advanced training at Marianna Field in Florida, where he was commissioned in December, 1942. He left the United States for active duty in March, 1943.

Robert became part of the India-China Wing and on May 15, 1943 and was posted as missing in action when his aircraft failed to return from a flight between India and China. He is now buried in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Plains, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA.

2Lt Walsh was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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