Sten A. R. EVANS

  

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NUMBER OF SERVICEO-733419
AGE-- yo
DATE OF BIRTHDay Month Year  Country STATE
ETATComté de Grafton , NEW HAMPSHIRE
FAMILY

Son of Gustave EVANS 

RANKSecond Lieutenant
FONCTIONNavigator
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT NH
DATE of ENLISTEMENTDay Month Year  Country STATE
SQUADRON526th Bomber Squadron
GROUP379th Bomber Group, Heavy
ARMY8th US Air Force
DATE OF DEATH16 September 1943evans sten a tombe
STATUSKIA
PLACE OF DEATHLe Tertre Pluhon - Cne Sainte-Anne-sur-Vilaine
DATA PLAN

B-17 Fortress - type F-75-BO - s/n 42-29901 LF*K

"Flying Bull Dogs"  

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Macr: 1347

Mission: Nantes (44) bombardment port, airfield

Takeoff station 117 Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire

Shot by fighter Focke Wulf 190 piloted by Fw Geisthardt of JG.2 / 10 (reportedly receiving a bomb from this fighter)

Airplane partially evacuated by parachute - 15h00

 
CEMETERYBRITTANY AMERICAN CEMETERY of St James

Map of St James American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
A181
DECORATION

Air Medal & 3 Oak Leaf Clusters 

Purple Heart

World War II Victory Medal 

 

am 3olc

Photo FDLM

victory medal

 

 

usaf  8air force  379bg  526bs
STORY
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Crew of  B-17 Fortress - type F-75-BO - s/n 42-29901 LF*K

"Flying Bull Dogs"

 

Second Lieutenant Walter Courtney EUWER Pilot Dead Cim Brit Am St-James O-663449 - DFC/AM+3 - MARYLAND
Second Lieutenant  Leonard M. BROWN CoPilot Dead Cim Brit Am St-James  O-734067 - AM+1- OHIO
Second Lieutenant  Sten A R. EVANS Navigatoir Dead Cim Brit Am St-James  O-733419 - AM+3 - NEW HAMPSHIRE
Second Lieutenant Edward F. CONNOLLY Bomber Dead Cim Brit Am St-James  O-733280 - AM+3/PH - IOWA
T/Sergeant Louis A. HAMILTON Gunner Dead Cim Brit Am St-James  16042481 - DFC/AM+3/PH - MICHIGAN
T/Sergeant Samuel N BLATCHFORD Radio/Gunner Prisoner - Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf  38002890 - ARKANSAS - Ftook prisoner on 17/12/1943 at the church of Pantin (93)
S/Sergeant Cyril G KOVAL Gunner Prisoner - Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria  32453126 - NEW YORK - took prisoner on 17/12/1943 at the church of Pantin (93)
S/Sergeant Alfred D HELD Gunner Prisoner - Stalag Luft 3 Sagan-Silesia Bavaria  11053259 - MASSACHUSETTS - took prisoner on 17/12/1943 at the church of Pantin (93)
S/Sergeant Elmer W SCHROEDER Gunner Prisoner - Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf  35325650 - OHIO - took prisoner on 17/12/1943 at the church of Pantin (93)
S/Sergeant Clifford M. HART Gunner Dead Cim Brit Am St-James  19096227 - DFC/AM+3/PH - WASHINGTON

Blatchford, Held, Schroeder and Koval manage to jump off the plane before the crash.

They are supported by residents and resisters.

But they are taken by the Germans on the eve of Christmas.

Blatchford, a 19-year-old Apache Indian, will be tortured by the Gestapo before being deported.

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