Born: 03 Apr 1923, Oak, Mills County, Iowa
Middle Name : Laval
Family:
Henry Bertrand Wilcox (father)
Cecile Effedil (Anderson) Wilcox (mother)
Beulah Evelyn Wilcox (sister)
Elmo Clayton Wilcox (brother)
Blaine Bertrand Wilcox (brother)
Clarice Darlene Wilcox (sister)
Lee Warren Wilcox (brother)
Completed 15 missions
Killed in Action (KIA) Damaged by flak and ditched in channel in B-17
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Source: American Air Museum in Britain
Stewart Laval Wilcox was born Apr. 3, 1923 to Henry Bertrand and Cecil Effedil Anderson Wilcox. He died July 24, 1944 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England.
Flight Officer Wilcox served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 613th Bomber Squadron, 401st Bomber Group, Heavy. He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart.
Sources: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
