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SGT Stephen Jackson Pressey
25 Nov 1921 – 21 Mar 1948
| Birth | 25 Nov 1921 |
| Death | 21 Mar 1948 |
| Cemetery | Golden Gate National Cemetery San Bruno , San Mateo County , California , USA |
| Added by | Tom Brocher on 04 May 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3622367 |
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McChord Field, Wash., March 21 (AP) An Air Force C-47 with eight men aboard vanished over southwestern Washington during a severe storm this afternoon as it was making an instrument approach to the Portland, Ore., Air Base. Fears that it had crashed were heightened when no trace of the twin-engined transport was found by the time its fuel was exhausted at 5:07 p.m. Fairfield-Suisun air base announced the names of five of the men aboard. They were: Maj. John B. Harding, the pilot, Fairfield-Suisun base. Capt. William H. Tillery, Fairfield, Calif. Capt. Wiley A. Garber, Oakland, Calif. Capt. Frederick J. Ziegler, Sacramento, Calif. Sgt. Stephen J. Pressey, Oakland, Calif. Last radio contact with the plane was at 1:07 p.m. At that time the pilot messaged he was 25 [miles] north of Portland making a procedure turn at 4000 feet for an instrument letdown. The missing craft was on a routine training flight from its home field at Fairfield-Suisun, (Calif.) to Portland. An intensive ground search of the area was launched by Washington and Oregon state police. Low clouds, heavy rains and limited visibility prevented rescue planes from taking off here or at Portland."
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