Pierre Marie Louis Jubault was born August 18, 1913 in Nantes, France, to parents Pierre Marie Jubault and Blanche Aimée Augustine Delalande. About three years after Pierre's birth, his father, a captain in the French army during World War I, was killed in action on July 5, 1916. Blanche remarried John Miles Robinson, a Pennsylvania soldier who had come to France in 1917, on August 23, 1919.

A week after their marriage, the family left France and permanently settled in Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1923. Pierre would never again visit his native country until the tragic days of early June 1944, when he and thousands of other courageous heroes would sacrifice their lives for freedom.

For most of his life, Pierre lived in Meadville, a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania. He attended two years of high school before beginning work at Talon, Inc., a major zipper manufacturing company headquartered in Meadville.

Just a few years later, war was breaking out in Europe. In May 1941, when the United States was still neutral, Pierre had enlisted in the U.S. Army. He served to defend the freedom of both his native and adoptive countries. 

Robinson enlisted in the U.S Army on May 2, 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

By the D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944, Pierre was the sergeant of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division.

Leading up to the invasion, the 29th Infantry Division trained at a number of forts throughout the United States, the first of which being Fort Meade in Maryland. In late September and early October 1942, the 29th Infantry Division left for Europe aboard the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth to begin training for the amphibious invasion of Normandy, France across the English Channel. The military division landed in Scotland for training and soon moved to southern England for additional preparation.

On June 6, 1944, the 115th Infantry Regiment landed on the Dog Red sector of Omaha Beach at approximately 10:25 a.m. Pierre survived the initial landing, but on the morning of June 7, Robinson’s battalion received orders to patrol the area near Louvières. They faced heavy opposition and Pierre was killed by a rifleman as he was walking around a corner, somewhere between Vacqueville and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer.

Pierre made the ultimate sacrifice on June 7, 1944 in Normandy, France. His parents, though proud of their son, would be devastated by his death. Three years later, in December of 1947, Blanche would die of what John considered to be a broken heart.

Though John never truly recovered from the death of his son and certainly never forgot the life he had spent with him, he once reflected on his relationship with Pierre, "I couldn't have had a better son, if I had one of my own."