Grave against a brick wall along the cemetery boundary.

A standard short US military gravestone; a small private inscribed remembrance written in French sits next to the gravestone.

2LT Robert "Bobby" L. Garrett,  of Norman, Oklahoma was a Navigator serving in the 785^th Bomber Squadron, 466^th Bomber Group of the 8^th Air Force flying out of Attlebridge, Norfolk, UK (Station 120).  On March 23, 1944 while flying in B-24 (42-52587) "Shoo Shoo Baby", Garrett along with a few other crew members survived a crash and were saved by local resistance forces in the Netherlands.  He was later transferred to Belgium Resistance, known as the "Comet Line" and lived with a family near Liege, Belgium.   The "Comet Line" was a network of over 1,000 civilians who guided downed Allied airmen south through Belgium and France, across the Pyrenees to neutral Spain, from which they could return to England.

Garrett was befriended by the family and with the Allies nearing the liberation of Liege, Garrett was shot and killed by the retreating enemy on September 7, 1944.  He was buried in the cemetery of his new Belgium friends.  After the war he was reburied at the US Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands.  At the request of his family, and with the support of his Belgian friends and village, he was reburied at the Queue-du-Bois cemetery in Beyne-Heusay, Belgium in 1949.

Source: AOMDA Foundation

ROBERT L GARRETT

BELGIUM

2LT 466 AAF BOMB GP

WORLD WAR II

APRIL 3, 1918           SEPT 7, 1944