Robert M. Forrestal

World War II
Service #0-746073
Unit418th Night Fighter Squadron
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Wisconsin
Date of DeathJanuary 19 1946
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Walls of the Missing
Purple Heart
Purple Heart
Notes

2LT Forrestal's name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery.
His remains were recovered and identified in 1965.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.