. . . . And Here At Home
1st. Lt. Bob Phinney, in France, made a crash landing in a B-26 with 5,000 pounds of bombs aboard and nothing special happened – says he. “Lost an engine soon after take-off – couldn’t drop my bombs as I was over a town and barely made the field but couldn’t hold altitude long enough to put down the wheels. Scared the hell out of all of us, but that’s all.”
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Sunday, February 25, 1945, Page 6
Robert Worthington Phinney was born Mar. 2, 1923 to Russell Dayton and Lillian May Jones Phinney. He died July 25, 2012 and is buried in Rock Island National Cemetery, Rock Island, IL.
Source: ancestry.com
