Ernest Robert McAdoo, or Bobby as he was known, was born on 27 July 1932 in Josephine, a small village in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. His father, William Emerson McAdoo, worked as a laborer in the coal mines and in road construction. His mother was Anna Marie Longenecker. Bobby was the only boy in the family, with four sisters.

Staff Sergeant McAdoo was a crew member of a B-29A Bomber with the 371st Bomber Squadron, 307th Bomber Wing. On October 23, 1951, the aircraft was shot down by enemy MiGs over Namsi Airfield. He was listed as Missing in Action and was finally presumed dead on February 28, 1954.

Awarded

★ Air Medal

★ Purple Heart

★ Korean Service Medal

★ United Nations Service Medal

★ National Defense Service Medal

★ Korean Presidential Unit Citation

★ Republic of Korea War Service Medal

Although his remains were never found, he is remembered in three locations.

His name is listed on two Memorial Sites, which are structures erected in honor of someone whose remains lie elsewhere:

* National Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. and

* Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii, Courts of the Missing in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl)

A grave marker is placed between his parents’ markers in the Coral Lutheran Cemetery in Coral, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, near his home town of Josephine in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

References:

“Indiana Evening Gazette”, Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 5 March 1954
"American Battle Monuments Commission" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com//title/853/american-battle-monuments-commission: accessed February 8, 2021)
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1033&h=81285&tid=36651222&pid=18968313603&queryId=68fd7ade713cf1c1540773cec9f8e3c9&usePUB=true&_phsrc=kmN366&_phstart=successSource
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++https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184599821/ernest-robert-mcadoo++

Researched by Diane Larsen and posted to Fold3 8 February 2021

SSgt Ernest Robert McAdoo