Military
Assigned to 340BS, 97BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed To Return (FTR) navigation exercise to Burtonwood in B-17 41-9098. Weather was poor, almost certainly the red warning flares on North Wales border were missed by the crew, and so while continuing on their heading they crashed on the eastern side of Cadair Bronwen in the Berwyn Mountain range in North Wales. 11-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB)
Awards: PH.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 97th Bomb Group
Assigned to 340BS, 97BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed To Return (FTR) navigation exercise to Burtonwood in B-17 41-9098. Weather was poor, almost certainly the red warning flares on North Wales border were missed by the crew, and so while continuing on their...
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 97th Bomb Group flew the Eighth Air Force's first heavy bomber mission from the UK when they bombed a marshalling yard at Rouen on 17 August 1942. Just a month later though the Group were reassigned to the Twelfth Air Force and left England for the...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Boise and assigned 359BS/303BG Molesworth 10/4/42; transferred 340BS/97BG Polebrook 8/42; detailed on a navigation exercise to Burtonwood, Lancs., the weather was poor, and almost certainly the red warning flares on North Wales border were...
Military site : airfield
Polebrook was laid down for RAF Bomber Command use in 1940-1941. Built by George Wimpey and Co. Ltd, it had short runways which were lengthened for USAAF heavy bomber use. The RAF used the base for operational trials - including of B-17 Flying...
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| Born | Pasadena, CA, USA | 4 February 1919 |
| Lived in | Grayson County, TX, USA | 1941 |
| Enlisted | Dallas, TX, USA | 11 September 1941 |
| Based | Polebrook | 1942 – 11 August 1942 |
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Assigned to 340BS, 97BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Promotion | Polebrook, Peterborough PE8 5LN, UK | 1 August 1942 |
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Promoted to Sergeant. |
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| Died | Cadair Bronwen, Corwen LL21 0ND, UK | 11 August 1942 |
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Failed To Return (FTR) navigation exercise to Burtonwood in B-17 41-9098. Poor weather caused crash on the eastern side of Cadair Bronwen, Wales. 11-Aug-42 DNB. |
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| Buried | 13 August 1942 | |
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Interrred |
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| Buried | 395 Biddle Blvd, Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027, USA | 10 June 1949 |
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Re-Interrred |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 August 2018 16:51:05 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, nickname, service number, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/310952969?terms=Stanley%20G%20Aldridge |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:25:19 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Combat Chronology Supplement, Losses of the 8th and 9th AF by Bishop and Hey p. 25 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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