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First Name:	Robert	edit
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Last Name:	Chapman	edit
Suffix:	Jr.	edit
Date of Birth:	Oct. 4, 1919	edit
Date of Death:	May 5, 1944	edit
Home Town:	Red Springs	edit
Home State:	N.C.	edit
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Class Year:	1941	edit
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Conflict/Era:	World War II	edit
Branch of Service:	Army Air Corps	edit
Rank:	Technical Sergeant	edit

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Chapman entered UNC from Red Springs High School and received his bachelor’s degree in commerce in 1941. He entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in November 1941. A visual defect kept him out of flight training, so he chose communications and completed the training course in May 1942. He also completed gunnery school.

Chapman went to the South Pacific in April 1943 as an aerial radio/gunner on a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. He was awarded a Purple Heart Medal for wounds received in the summer of 1943 and was hospitalized in New Zealand. He returned to his unit, where he received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.

His B-24 was leading a formation of 23 bombers on May 5, 1944, when it was attacked by 15 Japanese fighters and was shot down. Chapman was among the nine crew members who were lost with their ship.

Sources:
GAA Alumni Records;
www.abmc.gov

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