Hatcher Robert Walter

Monuments

437th Troop Carrier Group Plaques

Name:

Robert Walter Hatcher

Rank:

Flight Officer

Serial Number:

T-126166

Unit:

86th Troop Squadron, 437th Troop Carrier Group

Date of Death:

1945-05-13

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Cemetery:

Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Texas

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Robert Walter Hatcher was born on August 10, 1920 in Houston, Minnesota. He served in the 86th Troop Squadron, 437th Troop Carrier Group as a Flight Officer during World War II. On May 13, 1945, aboard Piper L-4A #42-36408, he was killed with 2Lt James Andrew Kintner in an accidental plane crash in Pierre-Levee, France. F/O Hatcher is buried now in the Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA. His name is commemorated on a plaque located at the Holy Cross Church in Ramsbury, England but his middle name's initial is inscribed as T.