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Personal info

Full name
FROBISH, Eldon Clarence
Date of birth
11 December 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Chatsworth, Livingston County, Illinois
Hometown
Livingston County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
O-706050
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
409th Bombardment Squadron,
93rd Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
4 November 1944
Place of death
North Sea, five miles north of Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Clarence Frobish (father)
Agnes (Hawthorne) Frobish (mother)
Arlene B. Frobish (sister)
William Frobish (brother)
Bernice I. (Morris) Frobish (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-109815
Data
Type: B-24J
Destination: Misburg, Germany
MACR: 10359

More information

Lt. Eldon C. Frobish graduated from Chatsworth High School in 1939.

He enlisted on 15 September 1942 in Peoria, Illinois. He received his final pilot training at Lincoln, Nebraska and left for England on 30 June 1944.

He was married on 23 May 1944 to Bernice Morris.

There is no eyewitness available who saw the aircraft leave the formation. No one will specifically claim seeing the aircraft over the target, but those crews in the same squadron "believe" he was in formation at "bombs away" position - at least they didn't notice any vacancy. During release and after rally, nothing was seen of the aircraft, nor was there any radio communication with it.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Cheryl Spencer, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census, The Pantagraph - 23 Jully 1945, www.findagrave.com - Lois Adams Gregory

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - The Pantagraph, findagrave.com - Laura Phillips, Chatsworth High School, 1938