Last wartime rank: Captain

Unit(s):
328th Fighter Squadron
352nd Fighter Group
July 1943

Theatre(s): ETO

Born:
October 25, 1915
Carthage, Mississippi

School:
Mathiston HS
Millsaps College, Jackson, MS

   Victories:
4/28/44 - 1 Shared Destroyed Ju-88
                Shared with Capt Powell
5/19/44 - 1 Destroyed ME-109
5/21/44 - 2 Destroyed Ju-86s

Decorations:
DFC with 2 OLCs
Air Medal with 3 OLC

Missing in Action:
Robert H. Sharp's plane went down over
the English Channel on June 9, 1944.

   Assigned Combat Aircraft:
P-47D-PE-V
"Ramblin' Rebel"

FLIGHT TRAINING:
Elgin Field, Ocala, Florida
- Primary Flight Training

Greenville Air Force Base
Greenville. Mississippi
- Basic Training

Maxwell Field
Montgomery Alabama
- Advanced Training

RTU:
Shipped overseas July 1944.
Assigned to Bodney Field, Norfolk Co, England.

NOTES:
Named on the Tablets of the Missing at Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England.
Named on a World War II memorial on the steps of the Leake County, Mississippi courthouse.
   
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