GREEN, Robert Gordon, Lt. 1923-1945

GREEN, SHELDON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/18/2010 at 12:39:08

PLAN MEMORIAL
SERVICE SUNDAY
FOR ROBERT GREEN

Osage Bombardier Gave
Life in Mission
Over Germany

Memorial services for Lt. Robert G. Green will be held Sunday afternoon, September 9, 1945, at three o'clock at the Osage Baptist Church. The service will be conducted by the Reverend Wayne E. Christensen. Members of the American Legion and ex-service men will meet at the Legion Home at 2:30 and attend the service in a body.

Lt. Green, a bombardier in the Army Air Corps, was killed in action, while on a bombing mission over Germany on April 11, 1944. He was first reported as missing on April 26, 1944, and official notification of his death reached his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Green, August 31, 1944.

Robert Gordon Green was born in Osage October 15, 1923. He graduated from Osage High School in 1940. He enlisted in the army June 2, 1942, and was called into service December 2, 1942 as an aviation cadet.

After taking pre-flight training at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, he was graduated as a bombardier at San Angelo, Texas, June 24, 1943. He then took advanced training at Lowrey Field, Colorado, and Moses Lake, Washington. He was sent to Drew Field, Florida, in November, 1943, and went overseas in January, 1944, by way of Brazil and North Africa. During his bombing assignments he was stationed in England.

Lt. Green was a member of the First Baptist Church of Osage, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen of America.

Surviving are his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Green of Osage; a grandmother, Mrs. Celia Sheldon; a half sister, Mrs. A. E. Spavin, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a half brother, Arthur Green, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[Mitchell County Press News, Osage, Iowa, September 6, 1945]

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