Stanley Pete Stemkoski
Military ROLL OF HONOURStanley Stemkoski was Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17 #41-24465 'Montana Power', shot down 5 April 1943 in Belgium. Killed in Action (KIA). Note : The crew list in the MACR and his gravestone at the Ardennes American Cemetery have him as Stanley P. Stemkoski.
His name is spelled Stemkowski at the Lewis County, WA WW II Casualties data at http://media.nara.gov/media/images/29/21/29-2002a.gif : STEMKOWSKI STANLEY P. 39380694 T SG KIA
The translation of the German report in MACR 15534 also has Stemkowski (that the Germans must have read on his dog tags) ?
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- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11021749 and O-732757
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator / Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18096211 and O-726079
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier / Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19055059 and O-442240
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 352nd Service Squadron 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15071583
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Pe Ell, Lewis County, Washington State, United States | 5 January 1918 | the son of Polish immigrants Stanley and Elizabeth Potaczek Stemkoski |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Kalmthout, Belgium | 5 April 1943 | |
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Buried |
His body was found by a forest worker (probably in the Kapellenbos woods) at 20:00 on 8 April 1943, at about 2,5km South of Kalmthout. He was first buried on 12 April 1943 at the Schoonselhof Cemetery in Hoboken, Antwerp, Belgium. After the war his remains were transferred to the Ardennes American Cemetery, Neupré, Belgium |
Revisions
MACR 15534
NARA WWII Enlistment records
ABMC website
Research on plane and crew for website www.evasioncomete.org
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15533 / MACR 15533, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey pp. 99-100, First Over Germany by Russell Strong pp. 81-82, ABMC / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database