FTO Robert Montilla Haverly
Born: 2 July 1923 – Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois
Parents: William & Ruby Haverly
Siblings: 1 sister
Home:
– 846 South Twenty-Fourth Avenue, Bellwood, Illinois
Married
Education:
– Roosevelt School
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1943
Occupation: machinist – Electro-Motive – LaGrange, Illinois
Inducted:
– U.S. Army Air Corps- September 1943
Serial Number: T&139174
Training:
– Miami, Florida
– Michigan State College – December 1943
– San Antonio, Texas
– Big Spring Bombardier School – Big Spring, Texas
– Selman Field, Monroe, Louisana
– 23 December 1944 – navigator’s wings
– commissioned Second Lieutenant
– December 1944 – visited family before he went overseas
– France – March 1945
Unit: 643rd Bomb Squadron, 9th Air Force
– Flight Officer
Missing in Action:
– 18 April 1945
– plane shot down
– Nordlingen, Germany
– single plane mission to test a new short-range navigation system
– reported Missing in Action – May 1945
Killed in Action: 18 April 1945
Buried:
– 30 March 1950 – Rock Island National Cemetery
– Plot: E Gave: 32/34
– buried with two other members of his crew
– Army attempted to bury men in a location which was the same distance for every family
Medals:
– Purple Heart
