Killed in action Apr. 11, 1944.

786TH SQUADRON
466TH BOMB GROUP
8TH U.S. AIR FORCE
KILLED IN ACTION OVER GERMANY
RE-INTERRED 3-17-1951
WWII


Burial:
Pleasant Run Cemetery

Sgt. Robert Fountain, 19, was Gunner on Liberator Bomber
 
  Staff Sergeant Robert H. Fountain, 19, waist gunner on a Liberator has been missing in action over Germany since April 11th, according to word received Friday morning by the youth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Fountain of near Delphi.
  Sgt. Fountain had been overseas since February and had been the member of a Liberator crew based in England.  He had taken part in innumerable raids over Germany during the past few weeks including many of the large scale bombing attacks.
  Entering service January, 1943, Fountain was sent to Fort Harrison and from there went to Amarillo, Texas, where he attended a school for aircraft mechanics.  Later he was sent to a gunnery school at Kingman, Arizona and to Salt Lake City, Utah, for further training.  He was home in October on furlough from the Utah post.  The young soldier was assigned to a crew at Davis-Monthan field, Tucson, Arizona, and he was trained as crew engineer and gunner at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
  He attended the Pittsburg school and was graduated from the Delphi high school, class of 1942.  While a student here, he was active in work of the Future Famers of America and in 4-H club work having shown champion livestock at the state fair and in other exhibits.  He won a letter in track while a Delphi high school student.  The youth was a member of the Delphi Presbyterian church.
  Sgt. Fountain has a brother, Edgar, at home, and a sister, Martha, a freshman in Hanover college.
 
Article taken from The Delphi Citizen, Thursday, May 4, 1944