Robert R. Bishop

World War II
Service #O-682775
Unit578th Bomber Squadron, 392nd Bomber Group, Heavy
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Illinois
Date of DeathApril 29 1944
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
578th Bomber Squadron, 392nd Bomber Group, Heavy
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal, Purple Heart. - His remains were recovered in 2003 and identified in 2007.
Notes

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Bishop were accounted for in 2009, and his name remains permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.