Lt. Roy Henry Mohr Jr.

Born: 1 March 1920

Parents: Roy H. Mohr Sr. & Nellie K. Moran-Mohr

    - father was Proviso Township Assessor

Sibling: 3 brothers

Home:

    - 840  Thomas Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois

Education:

    - St. Bernadine School

    - Proviso Township High School

        - Class of 1937

Occupation: 

    - H. J. Mohr & Sons 

       - sold oil burners and stokers

Enlisted:

    - U.S. Army Air Corps

        - 11 March 1942

            - sent to Officer Candidate School

Serial Number: O&733696

Training: 

    - Santa Ana Air Base, California

    - Stockton Field, California

    - King City Airfield, California

    - Hobbs Airfield, New Mexico

        - Qualified: pilot

Unit: 388th Bomb Group (Heavy), 8th Air Force

Plane: B-17

Plane's Name: "Shack Up"

Stationed:

    - Royal Air Force - Knettshall Station 136, England

Engagements:

    - Eleven missions over occupied Europe

Killed in Action:

    - 6 September 1943 - plane hit by enemy fire over Stuttgart, Germany

    - crashed: Voves, France

    - it appears his remains were misidentified as being that of a crewman from another plane

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing

        - Brittany American Cemetery - Saint James, France

Medals:

    - Purple Heart

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