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SSGT Stanley Duane Bennett

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SSGT Stanley Duane Bennett

Birth
Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas, USA
Death
11 Jun 1943 (aged 22)
At Sea
Burial
Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands Add to Map
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Stanley entered the service from Nebraska

Missing in Action


STAFF SERGEANT | TAIL GUNNER | 95TH BOMB GROUP

WIA. 19 May 1943. B-17F #42-29737. Shot down 11 June 1943 in B-17 #4229693. Plane crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA). 4 March 1943: Married Martha Janet Snyder in Auburn, Nebraska.


Crew:

Malcolm MacKinnon, Pilot

Gene Wood, Co-pilot

Richard "Dick" Miller, Navigator

Windell Deering Neely, Bombardier

George Babich, Top Turret gunner

John Vail, radioman

Richard "Dick" Cavanaugh, ball turret gunner

John Davoren, Waist gunner

Alexander Marek, waist gunner

Stanley Bennett, Tail gunner

(10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft attacked, ship exploded, crashed North Sea, 70 miles N of Texel Is, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2807. LONESOME POLECAT.

Stanley entered the service from Nebraska

Missing in Action


STAFF SERGEANT | TAIL GUNNER | 95TH BOMB GROUP

WIA. 19 May 1943. B-17F #42-29737. Shot down 11 June 1943 in B-17 #4229693. Plane crashed into North Sea. Killed in Action (KIA). 4 March 1943: Married Martha Janet Snyder in Auburn, Nebraska.


Crew:

Malcolm MacKinnon, Pilot

Gene Wood, Co-pilot

Richard "Dick" Miller, Navigator

Windell Deering Neely, Bombardier

George Babich, Top Turret gunner

John Vail, radioman

Richard "Dick" Cavanaugh, ball turret gunner

John Davoren, Waist gunner

Alexander Marek, waist gunner

Stanley Bennett, Tail gunner

(10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft attacked, ship exploded, crashed North Sea, 70 miles N of Texel Is, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2807. LONESOME POLECAT.

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  • Maintained by: Skip Farrow
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56296704/stanley_duane-bennett: accessed ), memorial page for SSGT Stanley Duane Bennett (25 Jul 1920–11 Jun 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56296704, citing Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands; Maintained by Skip Farrow (contributor 47380732).