Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....BRIGHT, ROBERT P. 1944
WWII U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE
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S-SGT R.P. BRIGHT POW IN GERMANY
THE WAR DEPT. YESTERDAY NOTIFIED MRS. CALLIE B. HOBBS THAT HER SON, STAFF SARGEANT
ROBERT P.BRIGHT ,IS A PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY.
 EARLY IN FEBRUARY, MRS HOBBS WAS NOTIFIED THAT HER SON, A BALL TURRET GUNNER ON A
FLYING FORTRESS, WAS MISSING IN ACTION OVER GERMANY.
 SGT. BRIGHT WAS WITH THE 95TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP ,COMMANDED BY COLONEL EARL TRUSDELL
JR. OF WASHINGTON D.C.. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORTRESS GROUP WHICH LED THE FIRST
AMERICAN BOMBING ATTACK IN BERLIN AND WHICH WAS CITED BY THE PRESIDENT FOR IT'S
OUTSTANDING BOMBING ASSAULT ON RAILROAD MARSHALLING YARDS AT MUNSTER GERMANY,IN
OCTOBER 1943. AS A COMPONENT OF THE DISTINGUISHED THIRD BOMBARDMENT DIVISION,YHIS
GTOUP ALSO SHARED IN A PRESIDENTAL CITATION GIVEN THE ENTIRE DIVISION FOR ITS
HISYORIC ENGLAND-AFRICAN SHUTTLE BOMBING OF AN IMPORTANT MESSERSCHMITT FIGHTER PLANE
PLANT AT REGENSBURG,GERMANY, IN AUGUST OF 1943.
 SGT WAS GRADUATED FROM THE CORDELE HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING
STUDENT,AND ENTERED THE ARMY AIR CORPS SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
 MR AND MRS W.H. CUNNINGHAM OF THIS CITY, ARE HIS MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS.

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