Herbert Waguette STANFORD
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Source : Tony Destro | |||||||
NUMBER OF SERVICE | O-803485 (12098205) | ||||||
AGE | 24 yo | ||||||
DATE OF BIRTH | 22 May 1920 | ||||||
ENLISTMENT STATE | NEW YORK | ||||||
FAMILY |
Spouse : Marian Parents : Herbert Francis & Julia Wacuette STANFORD | ||||||
RANK | Lieutenant | ||||||
FONCTION | Pilot | ||||||
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT | Laboratory technicians and assistants | ||||||
DATE of ENLISTEMENT | 27 June 1942 Rochester NEW YORK | ||||||
SQUADRON | 388th Fighter Squadron | ||||||
GROUP | 365th Fighter Group | ||||||
ARMY | 9th US Air Force | ||||||
DATE OF DEATH | 18 July 1944 |
Source : Erin Proctor | |||||
STATUS | KIA | ||||||
PLACE OF DEATH | Les Rouges Terres - N de Rabodanges | ||||||
DATA PLAN |
P-47 Thunderbolt - type D-22-R - s/n 42-26259 C4*? "Marian"
Macr : 6877 Takeoff site A-7 Azeville (50) Shot down in aerial combat at 9 a.m. Airplane evacuated at, too low altitude - parachute not open | ||||||
CEMETERY TEMPORARY |
CEMTERY TEMPORARY of Marigny N°3555 | ||||||
CEMETERY | BRITTANY AMERICAN CEMETERY of St James (Montjoie St Martin) | ||||||
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STORY | |||||||
Stele to Putanges-le-Lac (anciennement sur Rabodanges) Source : Aerosteles.net |
Herbert Stanford was born on September 22, 1920, in Verona, near New York. He was the youngest of family with five children, with French origins. One of his ancestors, called Waguette, left Alsace-Moselle before 1900 for the United States. At the age of 14, he met Marian, 13, who would become his wife nine years later. His mother dead when he was 16, he lived with his father and his brother William in a farm near Rochester (New York State). He participated in the fields works while finding an interest in cars, hunting and guitar. Assigned to the 365th hunting group of the 9th US Air Force, Herbert Stanford reached England on December 1943. There, he would participate to the preparing operations for the Landing. On June 6, 1944, the Allied landed in Normandy. The first regions barely liberated, the air engineering made significant efforts to build advanced airfields. That is how in Fontenay-sur-Mer, commune located in the canton of Sainte-Mère-l'Eglise (Manche), it took ten days for the American engineering to establish a complete field meant to harbor the 365th Group. | ||||||
On June 27, the first aircrafts took possession of the site, as soon as it was completed, and from the very next day, made their first patrols. Conveys attacks, artillery positions, ammunition and fuel stocks, supply of the essential air cover, collection of information through reconnaissance flights and photoshoots, four to six missions were completed every day. So, on Tuesday, July 18, 1944, eleven P-47 took off to realize a reconnaissance flight in the Falaise-Argentan area. At about 8.45 am, the squadron got involved in an air fight opposing twenty-five German aircrafts and eight American P-51 Mustang from another unit. The fight spread to a large area around Putanges. At 9.00 am, Lieutenant Stanford’s P-47 was hit and quickly lost altitude. The pilot managed to parachute from his burning aircraft, but much too late. |
Lakeview Cemetery Source : Todd Colegrove |
SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTO | Aad.archives.gov - Findagrave.com - Abmc.gov - Findagrave.com - Francecrashes39-45.net - Aerosteles.net - Ansa.ornemaine.free.fr |
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