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Re: S/Sgt G.A. Stidham, USAAF
Hello,
Don't know if you have seen it but in
"Losses of the 8th and 9th Air Forces" vols 1 & 2, by Bishop & Hey.
Page 499 vol 1
18th May 1943
Unknown 305BG,365BS
*Pvt Thomas R Halleran
Killed/Died on this date ? Buried Cambridge Plot F-7-87.
Unknown 94BG, 410BS
*S/Sgt Scott A Stidham *S/Sgt Garland L Strang
Killed/Died this date ? Both were buried in Brookwood Cemetery.
Later returned for final burial to Oregon and Maine respectively.
Page 485 vol 2
Additions and corrections vol1
499 18 May 1943
Pvt Thomas R Halleran, 305BG, 305BS, (typo for 365BS ?) was killed in a road traffic accident.
As Halleran was killed in a traffic accident is it not possible that this was also the fate of both Strang and Stidham ? Also B17 42-29819 of the 305BG transfered to the AFSC this date was salvaged this date so perhaps a fatal accident involving that B17 ?
P.S.
Re the Workman crew 42-29710 "Hell Below", 29th May 1943, this a/c was lost on the 94th's first Mission from Earls Colne, 2 KIA,8 POW.
MACR 15139
Crew
Workman; Downey; Petruzzi +; Carroll; Stevenson; Webster; Lowe; Ferentinos +; Koch; Muir.
All for now
Alex
Last edited by Alex Smart; 22nd November 2011 at 18:21.
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