STANLEY WHITBY (KIA)

(AS TOLD BY HIS BROTHER LTC ROBERT WHITBY, USAF)

STANLEY WHITBY

ARM2/C

Aircraft: SB2C Helldiver

VB15

U.S.S. ESSEX

NAVY-MARINE CORPS MEDAL, AIR MEDAL, PURPLE HEART

It was my brother Stanley Whitby, which received an honor today. At the time my brother was shot down, I had already spent 8 months in a German prison camp, due to being shot down in a mission over Germany. I believe that my brother knew what had happened to me, and he flew approximately 20 missions with his first pilot, and they were shot down, he rescued his pilot after being adrift in the Ocean for some time. At that time he had about 20 missions. I believe it was on his 30th or 32nd mission that he was shot down, I believe near Formosa. They never recovered from their dive. I learned this after I was released from prison camp in 1945.