Stories Behind the Stars: Monessen bombardier loses life on his first World War II mission

By John J. Turanin

For the MVI

Second Lt. Stephen G. Monick Jr. was a bombardier in the famed “Bloody Hundredth” — the 100th Bomb Group of the U.S. Army Air Force based in the English village of Thorpe Abbotts. He had just arrived there in January 1945. 

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