Kingsley Robert Ellis

Monuments

386th Bomber Group Monument (Great Dunmow)

1Lt Robert E. Kingsley Cemetery Plaque

Name:

Robert Ellis Kingsley

Rank:

First Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-660573

Unit:

555th Bomb Squadron, 386th Bomb Group

Date of Death:

1944-05-27

State:

New York

Cemetery:

Lorraine American Cemetery, Saint-Avold, France

Plot:

Tablets of the Missing

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 8 Oak Leaf Clusters

Comments:

Robert Ellis Kingsley was born in November 1919 in Onondaga County, New York. He enlisted in the Army on October 31, 1941, before the war, in Syracuse, New York. He was noted as being employed as an Architect and also as Single, without dependents.

Robert served as a First Lieutenant and Pilot on B-26B #42-96100 YA*O "Swamp Angel," 555th Bomber Squadron, 386th Bomber Group, Medium, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. On May 27, 1944, the crew took off from Station 164 airfield in Great Dunmow, England, on a mission to bomb the railway installations at Sartrouville to Maisons-Laffitte, France. Their plane was shot down at 8:51 PM by flak. The crew evacuated the plane except for the pilot who was injured and remained at the controls to save his crew. The aircraft exploded upon reaching the ground. The five members who evacuated were captured and taken as prisoners.

1Lt Kingsley was declared "Missing in Action," and his name is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing, Lorraine American Cemetery, Saint-Avold, France.

B-26 #41-31625 aircrew:
1Lt Robert E. Kingsley - Pilot
1Lt Richard A. Hart - Co-Pilot
1Lt William A. Harman - Navigator/Bombarider
T/Sgt Harry Phillip Guinther - Radio Operator/Machine Gunner
S/Sgt Henry J. Kurecka - Mechanic/Machine Gunner
S/Sgt Jerome S. Pokrzywinski - Machine Gunner

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, francecrashes39-45.net