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Edward Welling Stull

Stull was the pilot of the bomber that crashed in the Spaarndammer district on 22 March 1944.

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  • Edward Welling Stull
  • Born on: Feb. 28, 1918
  • Born in: Gloucester Township, New Jersey, USA
  • Died on: Aug. 15, 1992
  • Died in: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Edward Welling Stull

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Before World War II Edward Welling Stull was a painter. After joining the army he then became a cadet in the Army Air Corps. While based in England, he flew bombing missions over Germany.[1] He was the pilot of the bomber that crashed in the Spaarndammer district on 22 March 1944.[2] His aircraft was hit over bombing raid over Berlin. He was able to keep the aircraft in the air until he made it to Amsterdam. He was the last one to jump out of the plane just before the crash and landed near the Westersuikerfabriek on Van Noordtkade. He was shot at by German soldiers, but remained unharmed. His co-pilot Samuel Showalter however, broke an ankle.[2] Anne wrote about this in her diary.[3] He was taken as a prisoner of war until the end of the war.

A monument on Westzaanstraat in Amsterdam commemorates the civilian victims of the Boeing B-17-G Flying Fortress crash on 22 March 1944.[4]

Source personal data.[1]

Footnotes

  1. a, b FamilySearch: Edward Welling Jr Stull.
  2. a, b Emiel Ros, Bommenwerper op Spaarndammerbuurt 1944. Ros heeft zijn onderzoek naar deze vliegtuigcrash op 20 maart 2014 in een gesprek toegelicht.
  3. ^ Referred to by Anne as: the crew was able to parachute out. Anne Frank, Diary Version A and B, 23 March 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  4. ^ Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei: Amsterdam, monument aan de Westzaanstraat.