First Lieutenant Brain was the pilot of B-24J Liberator #42-50691, serving with the 2123rd Base Unit, Harlingen Army Airfield, Texas.
He was one of five airmen that were killed attempting to, or failed to in time, bail out of the bomber when a mechanical problem forced an in-flight abandonment, and his aircraft crashed, nineteen miles northeast of Raymondville, Texas.
Service # O-808941
Airmen who perished on B-24J (#42-50691):
Brain, Stanley M., 1st Lt, Pilot, Minnesota
Burey, Joseph, FO, Pennsylvania
Fritzche, Allen W., Pvt, Ohio
Hicks, Kenneth G., Pvt, Maryland
Ralston, Wayne M., Maj, Instructor Pilot, New Jersey
He was one of five airmen that were killed attempting to, or failed to in time, bail out of the bomber when a mechanical problem forced an in-flight abandonment, and his aircraft crashed, nineteen miles northeast of Raymondville, Texas.
Service # O-808941
Airmen who perished on B-24J (#42-50691):
Brain, Stanley M., 1st Lt, Pilot, Minnesota
Burey, Joseph, FO, Pennsylvania
Fritzche, Allen W., Pvt, Ohio
Hicks, Kenneth G., Pvt, Maryland
Ralston, Wayne M., Maj, Instructor Pilot, New Jersey
First Lieutenant Brain was the pilot of B-24J Liberator #42-50691, serving with the 2123rd Base Unit, Harlingen Army Airfield, Texas.
He was one of five airmen that were killed attempting to, or failed to in time, bail out of the bomber when a mechanical problem forced an in-flight abandonment, and his aircraft crashed, nineteen miles northeast of Raymondville, Texas.
Service # O-808941
Airmen who perished on B-24J (#42-50691):
Brain, Stanley M., 1st Lt, Pilot, Minnesota
Burey, Joseph, FO, Pennsylvania
Fritzche, Allen W., Pvt, Ohio
Hicks, Kenneth G., Pvt, Maryland
Ralston, Wayne M., Maj, Instructor Pilot, New Jersey
He was one of five airmen that were killed attempting to, or failed to in time, bail out of the bomber when a mechanical problem forced an in-flight abandonment, and his aircraft crashed, nineteen miles northeast of Raymondville, Texas.
Service # O-808941
Airmen who perished on B-24J (#42-50691):
Brain, Stanley M., 1st Lt, Pilot, Minnesota
Burey, Joseph, FO, Pennsylvania
Fritzche, Allen W., Pvt, Ohio
Hicks, Kenneth G., Pvt, Maryland
Ralston, Wayne M., Maj, Instructor Pilot, New Jersey
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