A Minor League Baseball player, he entered military service on October 15, 1942 to train as a bomber pilot. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in November, 1943, and received further training as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress pilot. In December 1943, he was assigned to the 335th Bomb Squadron of the 95th Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, and deployed to Horham Airfield in Suffolk, England. On November 5, 1944, he was co-pilot on a B-17G (43-38814) heading to Ludwigshafen, Germany. The bomber successfully dropped its payload on the target but was badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire. The pilot, Second Lieutenant Richard H. Wright, Jr., gave the order for his crew to bail out and Wolfson was seen safely descending by parachute. But that was the last his crewmates ever saw of him. [MACR 10308]. The pilot, together with the bombardier who had not bailed out, nursed the crippled bomber back to France, where it managed a belly landing near Nancy. The rest of the crew had parachuted to safety - albeit captivity - near the Pfalzer Wald forest about eight miles southwest of Kaiserslautern, and met with a hostile reception from local civilians before being turned over to German authorities. Wolfson, of Jewish extraction, handed himself in to local civilians and was picked up by members of the Criminal Police from Kaiserslautern. On the journey to Kaiserslautern, in a wooded area on the outskirts of the city, he was murdered by his captors. Presumably because they had discovered he was Jewish. [www.flugzeugabstuerze-saarland.de] It was not until after the war ended that the fate of Stan Wolfson was discovered.

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Service

Events

Event	Location	Date
Born	St. Louis, MO, USA	23 February 1922
Son of George E and Mollye [Fry] Wolfson.
Enlisted	St. Louis, MO, USA	15 October 1942
Completed flight training	Georgia, USA	November 1943
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Nov-43.
Based	Horham	December 1943 – 5 November 1944
Assigned to 335BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF.
Baled out	Saarbrücken, Germany	5 November 1944
Failed to Return (FTR) Ludwigshafen, Germany. A/C hit by flak, baled out successfully. Handed himself into local civilians and was picked up by members of the Criminal Police from Kaiserslautern.
Died	Near Kaiserslautern, Germany	6 November 1944
On November 5, 1944, he was co-pilot on a B-17G (43-38814) heading to Ludwigshafen, Germany. The bomber successfully dropped its payload on the target but was badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire. The pilot, Second Lieutenant Richard H. Wright, Jr., gave the order for his crew to bail out and Wolfson was seen safely descending by parachute. But that was the last his crewmates ever saw of him. [MACR 10308]. The pilot, together with the bombardier who had not bailed out, nursed the crippled bomber back to France, where it managed a belly landing near Nancy. The rest of the crew had parachuted to safety - albeit captivity - near the Pfalzer Wald forest about eight miles southwest of Kaiserslautern, and met with a hostile reception from local civilians before being turned over to German authorities. Wolfson, of Jewish extraction, handed himself in to local civilians and was picked up by members of the Criminal Police from Kaiserslautern. On the journey to Kaiserslautern, in a wooded area on the outskirts of the city, he was murdered by his captors. Presumably because they had discovered he was Jewish. [www.flugzeugabstuerze-saarland.de] It was not until after the war ended that the fate of Stan Wolfson was discovered.
Buried	67657 Kaiserslautern, Germany	7 November 1944
Interred Kaiserslautern cemetery
Buried	7570 Olive Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA	27 February 1949
Re-Interred Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery University City, MO.