He was credited with three aerial victories in July 1944:

- 4 July a FW 190 south of Brasov in Romania.

- 14 July a ME 110 near Budapest, Hungary

- 22 July a FW 190 at Silistra, Romania

His Decorations :

- D.F.C. (Distinguished Flying Cross).

Awarded for a difficult mission on 29 May 1944 in Yugoslavia where he with his squadron destroyed 8 eight locomotives and numerous wagons.

- Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters.

- Purple Heart

- Croix de Guerre with Palm, posthumously awarded by the government of France in 1949

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-396315

Entered the Service from: Texas

48th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group

Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart

Franklin L. Robinson is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Ector County, Texas.

U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:

Arline H. E. Robinson (Wife)

Drake, North Dakota

Information below gleaned from: https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=31474

Franklin L. Robinson was born on November 7, 1918, in Eureka, Greenwood County, Kansas. He was the son of Willis Louis Robinson and Cora May Swindler Robinson.

Franklin served in the 48th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, as a Major and Pilot on the P-38 Lightning #43-28345 during World War II. On August 16, 1944, Major Robinson took off from Triolo airbase in Italy for a mission when he was shot down by flak and crashed at Quartier Brunette in the commune of Six-Fours-les-Plages. He did not survive.

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