Sgt. Robert Leroy Taylor
Born: 5 February 1923 – Joliet, Illinois
Parents: LeRoy & Jennie Taylor
Siblings: 1 sister
Home: 1114 South First Avenue – Maywood, Illinois
Education:
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1940
– Illinois Institute of Technology – Chicago, Illinois
– two years
Occupation: accountant – Public Service Company – Chicago, Illinois
Selective Service Registration: 27 June 1942
Contact Person: Leroy Taylor – father
Inducted: 23 October 1942
– U.S. Army Air Corps
Training:
– Camp Grant, Illinois
– Jefferson Barracks – St. Louis, Missouri
– University of Chicago, Illinois
– Aeronautical School
– Raco Army Airfield – Raco, Michigan
– Lincoln Airfield – Lincoln, Nebraska
– Wendover Army Airfield – Wendover, Utah
– 509th Composite Group
– crews of B-17s trained there
– awarded his wings
– qualified as gunner
– Gowen Army Airfield – Bosie, Idaho
– Peterson Army Airfield – Colorado Springs, Colorado
– Second Air Force
Unit: Unassigned
Died: 23 December 1943
– died of pneumonia
Buried:
– Mount Emblem Cemetery – Elmhurst, Illinois
