Robert B. O'Hara was born on March 11, 1920 in Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Bernard O'Hara and Virginia Lazenby O'Hara. Robert was the Pilot of B17 #42-39868 aircraft during World War II. He was Killed in Action on November 11, 1943 and is now buried in the Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.

On November 11, 1943, at approximately 3 o´clock P.M., three of the crew members were made prisoner of war and the other seven reported Killed in Action after a plane explosion. A statement from J.B. O'Hara (his father) that there was a very heavy front over the English Channel when they took off for Muenster in the morning. They reached their target and were on their way back. As they were approaching the front, near the coast of Holland, three Focke-Wolf 190´s came out at about four to six hundred yards distance and engaged them, knocking out their No. 3 engine and also starting fire on the left wing. The ship was strafed its full length and the interphones shot out. The pilot, is believed to have been hit at that time, because the ship went into a wide bank and then into a spin, after which it exploded. The bombardier and two other men landed in the water and were picked up by Dutch fisherman who were later overtaken by a German patrol boat.

His name is commemorated on a monument at Oud-Beijerland, The Netherlands but his surname is inscribed as O'Harra.

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