Robert Knapp received the Silver Star as a corporal during the Battle of Midway in 1942. He received a battlefield commission and subsequently went with to the 15th Air Force in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, where he was shot down and crashed in the yard of a German citizen named Seeuber. Mr. Seeuber and other citizens of Altotting arranged a funeral service for the six American airmen and buried them on Mr. Seehuber’s property. His body was later returned to be buried in Amsterdam, New York. He received a second Silver Star (Posthumously). In his final mission his co-pilot, Henry Allen, also received a posthumous Silver Star.