Stanley Ragner Stedt

Military
Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the 306th Bomb Group rides a bomb. Image via BL Davies Image stamped on reverse: 'Copyright Planet News.' [stamp] Printed caption on reverse: 'AMERICAN 8TH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN DEMONSTRATES HUGE FIRING POWER OF FORTRESSES AND THUNDERBOLTS - REMARKABLE NEW GUNSIGHT HELPS GUNNERS. American 8th Air Force in Britain demonstrates the huge firing power of its Flying Fortresses and Thunderbolt fighters at an air station "somewhere" in England". The Flying Fortress, with media-379030.jpg FRE 1164 Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the 306th Bomb Group rides a bomb. Image via BL Davies Image stamped on reverse: 'Copyright Planet News.' [stamp] Printed caption on reverse: 'AMERICAN 8TH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN DEMONSTRATES HUGE FIRING POWER OF FORTRESSES AND THUNDERBOLTS - REMARKABLE NEW GUNSIGHT HELPS GUNNERS. American 8th Air Force in Britain demonstrates the huge firing power of its Flying Fortresses and Thunderbolt fighters at an air station "somewhere" in England". The Flying Fortress, with its 12 cannon gun, carries about 6250 shells weighing 1875 lbs. (or nearly 17cwts) besides its bomb load of 2000 lb. "cookies" or Blockbusters. The fire power of each gun is up to .650 rounds per minute, in conjunction with the new Sperry Computing gun-sight, which works out the height, range. PHOTO SHOWS: Bombardier Lieut. Stanley Stedt, of Stockholm, Maine, astride one of a bomb by the Fortresses. G. July 1943.PN.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 1164 - Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the 306th Bomb Group rides a bomb. Image via BL Davies Image stamped on reverse: 'Copyright Planet News.'...

Assigned to 423BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF.





Awards: AM, PH, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.

306th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Events

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Born

New Sweden, MN 10 March 1915 Son of Thure Ranger Stedt and Alice Josephin [Peterson] Larson.

Enlisted

31 October 1942

Other

Discharged USAAF

6 January 1946 Honourable discharge.

Died

Sun City, Riverside County, CA 22 February 2001

Buried

Riverside National Cemetery Riverside, Riverside County, CA 7 March 2001 Riverside National Cemetery Riverside, Riverside County, California
Stockholm, ME, USA

Based

Thurleigh Assigned to 423BS, 306BG, 8AF USAAF.

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306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

Stanley Ragner Stedt: Gallery (4 items)

Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the 306th Bomb Group, rides a bomb across the aerodrome at Thurleigh. His fellow airmen sit atop ammunition for B-17 Flying Fortresses. Image stamped on reverse: 'Sport and General.' [stamp], 'Passed for Publication '9 Jul 1943.' [stamp] and '273717.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'THE DEFENSIVE POWER OF FLYING FORTRESSES. The extremely heavy defense of the Flying Fortresses has enabled them to fight their way through to targets like Huls and Kiel in th

Object number: FRE 1156 - Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the...

Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the 306th Bomb Group rides a bomb. Image via BL Davies Image stamped on reverse: 'Copyright Planet News.' [stamp] Printed caption on reverse: 'AMERICAN 8TH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN DEMONSTRATES HUGE FIRING POWER OF FORTRESSES AND THUNDERBOLTS - REMARKABLE NEW GUNSIGHT HELPS GUNNERS. American 8th Air Force in Britain demonstrates the huge firing power of its Flying Fortresses and Thunderbolt fighters at an air station "somewhere" in England". The Flying Fortress, with

Object number: FRE 1164 - Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the...

A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group stand beneath the wing of their B-17 Flying Fortress. Image stamped on reverse: 'Sport and General.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 9 Jul 1943.' [stamp] and '273722.'[phott bureau no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'THE DEFENSIVE POWER OF FLYING FORTRESSES. The extremely heavy defense of the Flying Fortresses has enabled them to fight their way through to targets like Huls and Kiel in the face of the most intensive fighter opposition aerial warfare has ever seen. The

Object number: FRE 1168 - A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group stand...

Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the 306th Bomb Group rides a bomb. Handwritten caption on reverse: '27053.' Printed caption attached: 'The Defensive Power Of The Flying Fortresses. The extremely heavy defence of the Flying Fortresses has enabled them to fight their way through to targets like Huls and Kiel in the face of the most intensive fighter opposition aerial warfare has ever seen. The result of these and other encounters has been the destruction of more than 1100 enemy planes. Formations

Object number: FRE 4413 - Lieutenant Stanley Stedt, a bombardier of the...