Edgar Louis Stevenson
MilitaryEdgar Stevenson was a Left Waist gunner in the 94th Bomb Group / 410th Bomb Squadron. Shot down in B-24 # 42-29710 "Hell Below" on the 29 May 1943 mission to naval depots in Rennes, France. Plane crashed 3km West of Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes, to the East of Saint-Malo, Ille et Villaine, France. Prisoner of War (POW)
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19065021 and O-729712
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-418282
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32461783
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16065347
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37195457
- Highest Rank: Private First Class
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hell Below
- Unit: 94th Bomb Group 410th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 29 May 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
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Born |
8 April 1918 | the son of Chiron and Minnie (Lawson) Stevenson | |
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Enlisted |
30 December 1941 | as a Private in the Air Corps | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
29 May 1943 | Immediately captured on 29 May. Interned at Stalag XVIIB/17B (Barrack 38B) Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria NARA WWII POW records : “Returned to Military control 14 July 1945.“ | |
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Died |
20 November 1996 | ||
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Buried |
Revisions
My grand father Edgar Louis Stevenson was the flight mechanic and top turret gunner on the b-17 Hell Below that went down in the English channel. He was a pow during the war. He died when I was 6 years old. He left my father, Alan Edgar stevenson, and I a comemorative painting of hell below with his picture.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15139 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database