Stanley Stanton Barron Jr

Military
media-56686.jpeg UPL 56686 Barraclough crew, 490BG

Rear L-R: T/Sgt Glen Potter (E), Bennie Burrows (B), Ellis Beymer (N), Stanley Barron Jr (CP), Robert Barraclough (P), T/Sgt Harold Perrine (RO).

Front L-R: S/Sgt's Virgil Brockel (BTG), Elmer Rylander (NTG), Paul Romeo (TTG), Gordon Manveg (TG).

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Object Number - UPL 56686 - Barraclough crew, 490BG Rear L-R: T/Sgt Glen Potter (E), Bennie Burrows (B), Ellis Beymer (N), Stanley Barron Jr (CP), Robert Barraclough (P),...

Assigned to 851BS, 490BG, 8AF USAAF. Barraclough crew. ETD





Awards: DFC, AM, WWII Victory, American campaign, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.

490th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Robert Arthur Barraclough

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 851st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13030849 / O-789124
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Places

Eye, home of the 490th Bomb Group, photographed from the air. Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Eye from air.'

Eye

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Brome

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Trinidad, LasAnimas County, CO 4 July 1921 Son of Stanley Stanton Sr and Bunola Barron.

Enlisted

Denver, CO 31 October 1942 Denver, Colorado

Other

Discharged USAAF

23 May 1945 Honourable discharge.

Died

Weston, CO 17 January 2004

Buried

Stonewall Cemetery Stonewall, Las Animas County, CO 20 January 2004 Stonewall Cemetery Stonewall, Las Animas County, Colorado,

Based

Eye Assigned to 851BS, 490BG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit History

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