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 0-431081,   First Lieutenant

Pilot Crew 6

Graduated from Greenville High School, Greenville, Texas and attended Paris Junior College, Texas and Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Alabama for two years.  Entered service on November 21, 1940 at Houston, Texas.  Graduated as Pilot and commissioned as Second Lieutenant from Advanced Flying School, Stockton, California in July, 1941.  Joined 95th Bomb Squadron at Pendleton, Oregon.  Was captured by the Japanese and executed on October 15, 1942 at Kiangwan Prison, Shanghai, China.  Decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart (posthumous), and the Chinese Breast Order of Pao Ting.

 

Born January 20, 1914, Robert Lee, Texas
Executed by Japanese firing squad, October 15, 1942

Executed at Kiangwan Cemetery, Shanghai, China
Cremated and remains taken to the International Funeral Home in Shanghai, China
Discovered after the war stored under the name “J. Smith”

Arlington National Cemetery
Memorial Drive
Arlington, VA 22211
703-695-3250

Section 12 Grave 158
Interment 1/17/1949

Inducted Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, Galveston, TX

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Three of the Raiders: Hallmark, Farrow and Spatz, were executed at this cemetery near the Kiangwan Prison, Shanghai, on Oct. 15, 1942. They were made to kneel, tied to small crosses and shot.