Glenwood Gordon Stephenson was born on August 17, 1914, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. He was the son of Gordon B. Stephenson and Hazel M. Aebischer Stephenson. He was married to Ann Grace Nall. He attended elementary school in Milwaukee and Arpin, then completed high school in Auburndale, graduating in 1932. The following year, he finished the one-year program at Wood County Normal School in Wisconsin Rapids, where he also joined the Wisconsin National Guard. After leaving Wisconsin, Glenwood Stephenson traveled west to California, where he enlisted in the 31st U.S. Infantry Regiment. The unit was soon transferred to Fort William McKinley near Manila, Philippines, where he attended the post’s preparatory school. During President Quezon’s 1935–36 inauguration in Manila, he met Senator F. Ryan Duffy, who was impressed by him and later nominated Stephenson for appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1940.

After commissioning as a Second Lieutenant, he transferred to the Army Air Corps, completing flight training at Tuscaloosa and Montgomery, Alabama, and later at Savannah Army Air Base, Georgia, where he earned his bomber pilot wings. In 1941, he joined the Ferrying Command, flying bombers across the United States and to Canada.

Ordered overseas in November 1941, Stephenson piloted bombers in combat over Luzon, attacking Japanese transports and landing parties, and later flying missions in the Dutch East Indies and Australia. He was killed in a non-combat plane crash near Melbourne on April 21, 1942. He is now buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, alumni.westpointaog.org