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Personal info

Full name
LLOYD, Robert Vincent
Date of birth
13 April 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Essex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
O-752135
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
343rd Fighter Squadron,
55th Fighter Group
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
4 March 1944
Place of death
English Channel

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
John W. Lloyd (father)
Rose E. (Moulaison) Lloyd (mother)
Thomas F. Lloyd (brother)
John Lloyd (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-68182
Data
Type: P-38J
Destination: Leipzig, Germany
Mission: Bomber Escort
MACR: 2792

More information

1st Lt Robert V. Lloyd attended Lowell Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was employed at the General Electric Company.

He was last seen 6-10 miles off the Dutch coast. Lt Lloyd seemed to have engine problems because one of them was smoking.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Federal Census / Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 / WWII Draft Card

Photo source: 55th Fighter Group Association, www.newspapers.com - Transcript-Telegram - 6 October 1942 / The Boston Globe - 1 November 1945