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Personal info

Full name
STONE, Edward Stephen
Date of birth
29 July 1918
Age
25
Place of birth
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
Hometown
Polk County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
O-733745
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
549th Bombardment Squadron,
385th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
15 August 1943
Place of death
10 miles off the coast of Dunkerque, English Channel

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Evan H. Stone (father)
Luella M. Stone (mother)
Evan H. Stone (brother)
Donald R. Stone (brother)
Margaret A. (Von Rohr) Stone (sister)
Donald R. Stone (brother)
Wilford L. Stone (brother)
Leland C. Stone (brother)
Richard M. Stone (brother)
Laura (Cruzen) Stone (wife)
Janice Stone (daughter)

Plane data

Serial number
42-30598
Data
Type: B-17F
Destination: Vitry-en-Artois, France
Mission: Bombing of the airfield
MACR: 267

More information

Edward Stone graduated from North High School in June 1936 and graduated from Grinnell College. He was a foreman in a manufacturing company.

He enlisted in Des Moines, Iowa on 19 March 1942.

Along with airplane #42-30186, this airplane was hit by a fighter that flew through their formation. Both B-17s fell out of the formation. The pilot of #42-30186 said that he might have been able to keep up with the formation, but, since he seriously doubted this possibility, he thought it better to drop out and to try to protect plane #42-30598. Both aircraft were jumped by fighters. Plane #42-30598 was also hit by flak. The two airplanes got about 10 miles off the coast near Dunkerque when #42-30498 prepared to ditch, since its #1 and #2 engines were out. About 300 feet above the water, the left wing came off, the airplane nosed into the water, and then it seemed to explode.

The entire crew of ten was killed.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - WWII Bonus Case File, http://www.nhwallofhonor.com - Rick Nehrling, www.fold3.com - MACR

Photo source: FOHF, http://www.nhwallofhonor.com