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SERGEANT STANLEY R.
SHELDON was born in Pennsylvania on November 4, 1907. In April of 1930 he was living
at 1621 Olympia Road in the Fairview section of Camden NJ with his
sister Thelma, a timekeeper at the RCA-Victor plant in Camden. He was
working in a restaurant at that point. He married in the early 1930s, and
lived at 953 Trent Road in Camden NJ with his wife Rita. He worked as a
welder at the New York Shipyard before being inducted into the United
States Army in March of 1943. He qualified for flight duty, and trained
as a gunner. Assigned to a bomber crew, he went overseas in June of
1944. Sergeant Sheldon had only been in Italy for three weeks, but still
had completed 15 missions before his B-24 was shot down over Yugoslavia.
Only one crewmember survived, Charles Hodson of Buffalo NY, who was
after being taken prisoner, wrote the Sheldon family. At that point
Stanley Sheldon was listed as missing in action. He was declared dead by
the Army one year later.
Stanley Sheldon was 37
when his plane was downed. He was survived by his wife, Rita, and two
daughters, Frances and Dorothy. His body was recovered in the mid-1950s,
and he was brought home and buried at Jefferson Barracks National
Cemetery in St. Louis MO on March 2, 1955. |
