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Robert Francis
Kiley was a member of the 81 mm mortar platoon when he jumped into
Normandy in the early hours of D-DAY 6th June 1944.
Things did not go
well for Robert as he was captured by the Germans that same day.
Robert Kiley
endured the hardships of being of being a P.O.W. during the remaining
years of the war.
After being
released from captivity he was returned to the United States.
Despite receiving
treatment for acute infectious hepatitis, which was the result of his
captivity in a German P.O.W. camp, Robert Kiley died on June 12th
1946.
He survived the
Normandy invasion by just 2 years and 6 days. |
