He was one of four brothers who served honorably in World War II and all four returned home safely! He was quick to state, “I was not a soldier of good conduct.” After the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima, he boarded the Marine Angel and was honorably discharged on Octoat Jefferson Barricks, St. Decorations and citations awarded were five bronze stars for these battlefields: Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Central Europe, Rhineland, with one citation good conduct medal. He departed for Europe from New Jersey on Octoaboard the Queen Mary and on zig zag route landed in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 17, 1943, later to be stationed in southern England at Maidenhead near Cookham.īut for a storm, he drove himself and his lieutenant in a Jeep through the water and onto the beach at Normandy D-Day +1 or 2 days. He was drafted into the Army of the United States on his mother’s birthday, Novemat Jefferson Barracks in St. He was reared about two miles north of Downing, Missouri. He attended Dutchy Rural School through fourth grade and then attended Downing School system, graduating high school in 1940. The sixth child and third son of Robert Franklin and Ivalee (Drake) Bruner, he was born in Fabius Township, Schuyler County, Missouri, northwest of Downing, Missouri. He was 100 years, 10 months and 22 days old. Robert “Bob” Lewis Bruner, 100, passed away Wednesday, August 2, 2023, under the care of Hospice of Davis and Wapello Counties, in Good Samaritan Society, Ottumwa, Iowa.
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