Edison Greenwood Stiff
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Object Number - UPL 13383 - 'Roll of Honor' at St. John the Baptist Church, Metfield, for USAAF personnel.
Shot down by very accurate flak and crashed near Eckeren (known as Ekeren these days) on a bomber escort mission to Koblenz, GR in P-47D #42-75065 February 22 1944 KIA
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Events
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Ekeren, Antwerpen, België | 22 February 1944 | |
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Other Promoted |
Revisions
Just adding the correct name for Ekeren, where he died. (The old writing is still used, it presumably changed after the war. I live close to the Luithagen area where he crashed.)
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2672 / MACR 2672, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
