Stanley Emerson Sackett

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-31156.jpeg UPL 31156 1st Lt Stanley E 'Sack' Sackett 369FS, 359FG, 8AF.

USAAF photo.

Object Number - UPL 31156 - 1st Lt Stanley E 'Sack' Sackett 369FS, 359FG, 8AF.

Assigned to 369FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Brunswick in P-51 42-106904 shot down in combat with Fw190 crashed at Wunstorf Killed in Action (KIA) 8-May-44 MACR 4537.



Awards: DFC (OLC), AM (3OLC), PH.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 359th Fighter Group 369th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Denver, CO, USA 9 January 1942

Died

Wunstorf, Germany 8 May 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) escort to Brunswick in P-51 42-106904 shot down in combat with Fw190 crashed at Wunstorf KIA MACR 4537.

Buried

Killed in Action (KIA)

Mandelsloh, Germany 8 May 1944 Interred Mandelsloh cemetery

Born

Fort Collins, Colorado Son of Thorwald H and Dorothy E Sackett.

Buried

Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Re-Interred Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Liege, Belgium
Larimer County, CO, USA

Based

East Wretham 8 May 1944 Assigned to 369FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4537 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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