Name:
Willis C. Stephenson
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
17098886
Unit:
742nd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group
Date of Death:
1944-08-25
State:
Kansas
Cemetery:
Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas
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Born 11 July 1920, enlisted in June 1942. Assistant radio operator and ball turret gunner of the B-24 G, 42-78240, "Our Love", which took off from near Bari, Italy on a bombing run of a train yard in Bucharest, Romania. Over the target, the plane was struck by anti-aircraft fire and thus fell out of formation and was attacked by five German fighter planes on the return flight, which brought the plane down. Stephenson did not make it out of the plane.