Name:
Ronald E. Stone
Rank:
Private
Serial Number:
AF 15 199 071
Unit:
Date of Death:
1949-01-07
State:
Cemetery:
Machpelah Cemetery, Mount Sterling, Kentucky
Plot:
South Side - Section 6
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Ronald E. Stone was born in 1929. He was a crew member on one of the supply planes carrying airplane engines and other parts to Burtonwood Air Base in England for maintenance, when his plane, C-54 #45-554, crashed into a hillside in England on a foggy, misty day in January 1949. The crash, caused by navigation interference from a nearby radio tower, occurred 15 miles northeast of Blackpool, England on January 7, 1949. PFC Stone is buried now in the Machpelah Cemetery, Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, USA.
Crew of the C-54 #45-5543:
CPT William A. Rathgeber
PVT Ronald E. Stone
CPL Norbert H. Theis
SGT Bernard J. Watkins
1LT Lowell A. Wheaton, Jr.
1LT Richard M. Wurgel