Doyle Robert I.

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Robert I. Doyle is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

RB-29A 'Overexposed' Memorial

Name:

Robert I. Doyle

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

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Unit:

16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group

Date of Death:

1948-11-03

State:

Michigan

Cemetery:

Mount Olivet Cemetery, Saginaw, Michigan

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Robert I. Doyle was born on August 22, 1921. He was a camera crew aboard U.S. Air Force RB-29A Superfortress #44-61999. He perished when the reconnaissance-variant bomber, named "Overexposed" collided, in poor visibility weather, with a ridgetop called Higher Shelf Stones, near Glossop, England (approximately midway between Manchester and Sheffield) while on a flight from RAF Scampton to RAF Burtonwood. All 13 aboard were killed.

SSgt Doyle is now buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA.

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