From:   Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Steve [lakeman12002@yahoo.com]
Sent:   Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:46 AM
To: Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com
Subject:    Re: [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Al Robbins WWII

All:  My own father also served in WW2. On B-17 bombers training command. In the Army Air Corps. His eyes were too bad to see service overseas on the B-17s. But he was in Texas and New Mexico traing pilots and air crews. Late in the war, made transition to B-29 bombers and was scheduled to go overseas to the Pacific in order to bomb Japan. But 2 days before he was scheduled to go, the atomic bombs made Japan surrender.

My father's grandparents were Henry Miller and Mary Ellen ROBBINS. Married here in Iowa in 1887. Robbins line goes back to New Jersey Robbins too. My father is now 82 and in a nursing home. Hi grandson and my nephew, serving also in the US Air Force, just returned from a tour in Iraq.

Have photos of them if wish to see them both.

Steve Russell in Iowa



From:   Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Steve [lakeman12002@yahoo.com]
Sent:   Monday, October 31, 2005 8:40 AM
To: Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com
Subject:    Re: [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Robbins family pictures

Sara: Mary Ellen Robbins born Feb. 18, 1866 in Center Point, Iowa(dau. of James and Lucettia Doss Robbins. James and his 5 brothers served in the civil war) and passed away June 25, 1946 in Arnold's Park, Iowa. Dad says he drove out to Chula Vista, Cal. only a few days after he was discharged from the service to bring Mary Ellen Robbins Miller home to Iowa. She had been spending winters in Cal. with another daughter. She barely arrived home and passed away sudenly.

Steve