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Personal info

Full name
BARISH, Stephen Morris
Date of birth
1918
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New Jersey
Hometown
Baltimore, Maryland

Military service

Service number
O-748322
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
526th Bombardment Squadron,
379th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
17 July 1944
Place of death
English Channel, off the coast of Berck-sur-Mer, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Philip Barish (father)
Getrude W. Barish (mother)
David Barish (brother)
Rhoda Barish (sister)
Elizabeth H. (Nelson) Barish (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-102961
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Frevent, France
Mission: Bombing of railway installations
MACR: 7839

More information

Stephen Barish enlisted at Camp Upton, New york on 22 July 1941.

The airplane was shot down by flak.

The crew seemed to have bailed out and all landed in the Channel. None of the nine men survived.

Source of information: Peters Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree

Photo source: FOHF, Stevanne Mills, Nelda of Minter Field, Shafter, California, Pilot Class 43-F