Robert D Stone
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Whiteside County, IL, USA | 15 January 1921 | |
Other Shot Down/Bailed out |
2230 Ramsel, Belgium | 7 November 1944 | Successfully bailed out over Allied territory |
Died |
Fulton, IL 61252, USA | 11 September 2012 | Bob was born January 15, 1921, in Garden Plain Township, to Clayton M. and Lepha F. (Murphy) Stone. He was educated in the Garden Plain Grade School and was a 1938 graduate of Erie High School in Erie, IL. He attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. Bob was a veteran the U.S. Army Air Force and served during WWII. He married Dorothy M. Ege on March 22, 1942, in Garden Plain. He was first employed by Cy Breeden Supply and Construction Company in Garden Plain. He then served as Garden Plain Township Highway Commissioner and later worked for the Whiteside County Highway Department. Most recently he owned and operated Stone Excavating, Morrison, IL, until retiring in 1996. Bob was a member of the Garden Plain Presbyterian Church, the Albany American Legion - Hanson/Kennedy Post #1079, and the Natural Area Guardians of Whiteside County. Bob enjoyed camping and bird watching |
Buried |
Garden Plain, IL 61252, USA | 14 September 2012 | Garden Plain Cemetery Garden Plain Whiteside County Illinois, USA |
Fulton, IL 61252, USA | Route #2 | ||
Morrison, IL 61270, USA |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL by Wassom & Brassfield, page 351