Flies Home For Visit
A former Sioux Cityan, Lieut. R.N. Lamberto, (seated) flying officer stationed at the Columbia, South Carolina air base, was in Sioux City Monday. Lieut. Lamberto, with eight other fliers from the South Carolina base, landed Sunday evening at the Sioux City air base, in a light bomber of which he is first pilot. The other member of the crew in the picture is Lieut. R.E. Kraft, formerly of Mapleton, Iowa. Lieut. Lamberto formerly was employed on the Sioux City Tribune.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, November 3, 1942 (photo included)
Robert Eli Kraft was born Oct. 29, 1919 to Eli and Geneva Esther Towers Kraft. He died in Oct. 26, 1944 and is buried in Epinal American Cemetery, Dinoze, France and memorialized in Mount Hope Cemetery, Mapleton, IA.
Lt. Kraft served in World War II with the U.S. Army 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group and was KIA in the service of his country and was awarded the Purple Heart.
Source: ancestry.com
