Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....BRIGHT, S-SGT ROBERT P. January 10, 1945
WWII U.S ARMY AIR CORPS
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MISSING IN ACTION
 STAFF SARGEANT ROBERT P BRIGHT,19, A BALL TURRETT GUNER ON A FLYING FORTRESS, IS
REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION IVER GEMANY SINCE JANUARY TENTH. ACCORDING TO A MESSAGE
FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT WHICH WAS RECEIVED TUESDAY BY HIS MOTHER,MRS. CALLIE B.
HOBBS,OF THIS CITY.
 SGT BRIGHT WAS WITH THE 95TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP, COMMANDED BY COLONEL EARL TRUESDALE
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 ITS
OUTSTANDING BOMBING ASSAULT ON RAILROAD MARSHALLING YARDS AT MUNSTER, GERMANY,IM
OCTOBER,1943. AS A COMPONENT OF THE DISTINGUISHED THIRD BOMBARDMENT  DIVISION, THE
GROUP ALSO SHARED IN A PRESIDENTAL CITATION GIVEN THE ENTIRE DIVISION FOR ITS
HISTORIC ENGLAND- AFRICAN SHUTTLE BOMBING OF A IMPORTANT MESSERSCHMITT FIGHTER PLANE
PLNT AT REGENSBURG,GERMANY, IN AUGUST OF 1943.
 SGT BRIGHT WAS GRADUATED FROM THE CORDELE HIGH SCHOOL WHER HE WAS AN OUTSTNDING
STUDENT, AND ENTERED THE ARMY AIR CORPS SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
 MR AND MRS W.H. CUNNINGHAM OF THIS CITY,ARE HIS MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS.F

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