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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