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Chester Brady STOUPE
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Source : Arnaud Gaté & Randy (Ellen Marchese) | ||||||
| NUMBER OF SERVICE | O-698386 | |||||
| AGE | 19 yo | |||||
| DATE OF BIRTH | 11 November 1924 Junction City, Geary County, KANSAS | |||||
| ENLISTMENT STATE | KANSAS | |||||
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Parents : Charles Brady & Frances V. STOUPE Frère & soeur : Evelyn Marie & Charles B | |||||
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| FONCTION | Navigator | |||||
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| SQUADRON | 525th Bomber Squadron | |||||
| GROUP | 379th Bomber Group, Heavy | |||||
| ARMY | 8th Air Force | |||||
| DATE OF DEATH | 9 July 1944 |
Source : F Lavernhe | ||||
| STATUS | MIA | |||||
| PLACE OF DEATH | Le Havre | |||||
| PLAN DE VOL / FLIGHT PLAN |
B-17G-30-DL Fortress #42-38141 "Pansy Yokum"
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| CEMETERY | NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville | |||||
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Source : Raedeane Maughan | Chester B Stoupe was born in 1924 in Kansas. His mother Esther Marie Miller was named as his next of kin and she was living in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. Chester was living in Junction City, Kansas when he entered the service. On 9 July 1944 he was on the crew of the B-17G #42-38141 "Pansy Yokum" when they took off from Kimboloton RAF in England. They were on a mission to hit the La Possoniere railroad bridge near Angers, France. They were shot down by flak and crashed into the North Sea off the northern coast of France. There were no survivors. | |||||
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Omaha World herald 1945 Source : Loren Bender |
Hugh E Frye Jr : Pilote Victor B Gluckman : Co-Pilote Chester B Stoupe : Navigatorateur Orval W Epperson : Flight Engineer Harry W Crites : Radio Operateur Robert J Davids : Top Turret Gunner Lawrence R Eiler : Tail Gunner Thomas A Kunrod : Ball Turret Gunner Ronald M MacKenzie : Right Waist Gunner |
Photo prise le 1er juillet 1944 du site Web fold3 Source : patootie | ||||
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Source : Americanairmuseum.com | ||||||
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Men of the 379th take a break to play football beside the flight line at Kimbolton in the spring of 1944. The shadow of what the air crews faced lingers in the backstory of the B-17 parked nearby. That’s “Pansy Yokum,” a Douglas-built B-17G that joined the group right at the end of Big Week in February 1944. On March 8th, it was hit by enemy fire during the Berlin Raid and one of the waist gunners was killed in action. Shortly after this photo was taken, this B-17 vanished on July 9, 1944. The crew failed to form up as the 379th assembled for the mission, but apparently the pilot, Lt. Hugh Frye, decided to press on. They either joined up with another group, or went off in search of the 379th. Either way, the Fort was hit by flak over France, limped back toward England, only to crash at sea off Le Havre. All nine aboard perished, including the 23 year old bombardier, Lt. Orval Epperson, a small town kid from Neosho, Missouri. He was his family’s only son. | ||||||
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Source : Fold3 | ||||||
| Vidéo du B-17G-30-DL Fortress #42-38141 "Pansy Yokum" | ||||||
| SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTO | Arnaud Gaté - Honorstates.org - Findagrave.com - Abmc.gov - Americanairmuseum.com - Honorstates.org - Ancestors.familysearch.org |
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| EDITORS | Victor, Jean-Philippe, Eric, Henri, Garrett, Clive, Frédéric & Renaud |