Bomber Crash Kills CoPilot
Stanley S. Stevenson, Sioux City, One of Five To Die
Raleigh, North Carolina—Five army fliers were killed and two injured early Thursday in the crash of a medium bomber near the Raleigh-Durham army base. The plane was from the Greenville, South Carolina army air base.
The dead listed by the base commander at Greenville included:
Flight Officer Stanley S. Stevenson, 21, copilot, wife Mrs. Marjorie June Stevenson, 10 32d Street, Sioux City.
Besides the widow the officer is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Stevenson and two sisters, both of Indianola, Iowa. His mother-in-law is Mrs. R. Earl Brown, 816 Jackson Street, Sioux City.
While awaiting entrance into the air corps, the young man resided in Sioux City temporarily for about a month.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, December 15, 1944
Stanley S. Stevenson was born Nov. 16, 1923. He died Dec. 13, 1944 and is buried in IOOF Cemetery, Indianola, IA.
Flight Officer Stevenson served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps, Third Air Force and died while in the service of his country.
Source: ancestry.com
