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Personal info

Full name
STURDEVANT, Warren Monroe
Date of birth
31 May 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Iowa County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Clyde, Iowa County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
16009407
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Tail Gunner
Unit
339th Bombardment Squadron,
96th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
16 December 1943
Place of death
Waddenzee, approximately 2 miles northwest of Harlingen, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Marcus C. Sturdevant III (father)
Mabel F. (Knight) Sturdevant (mother)
Marcus C. Sturdevant (brother)
Ralph M. Sturdevant (brother)
Fred S. Sturdevant (brother)
Ruth I. Sturdevant (sister)
Robert E. Sturdevant (brother)
Raymond H. Sturdevant (brother)
Wesley S. Sturdevant (brother)
Sidney E. Sturdevant (brother)
Lucy Sturdevant (sister)
Gordon Sturdevant (brother)
Bessie Sturdevant (sister)
Beulah Sturdevant (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-31113
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Zilch
Destination: Bremen, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the port
MACR: 1564

More information

S/Sgt Warren M. Sturdevant worked on a farm.

He joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 June 1941.

The airplane was attacked by enemy aircraft. One engine was knocked off the ship, falling on aircraft no # 42-30872. Both airplanes went down. No parachutes were seen.

The entire crew of both airplanes was killed.

He is remembered at the Avoca Cemetery in Avoca, Iowa County, Wisconsin.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Sophie Vleugels, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.fold3.com - MACR, www.ancestry.com - Hopper Family Tree, www.8thafhs.com, 1930/1940 Census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Andrew Cockroft, Roberta Sturdevant Stocks