Angeleno Pilot Bags Jap Trio Before Being Killed
Earl Stone Jr. Dies in Bataan Parents Told
"Fighting to the last in the air warfare over Bataan, Lieu. Earl Stone Jr., 23-year-old Los Angeles pilot, was killed in action March 24 [sic date of death February 9, 1942], the War Department announced yesterday,
But the score was three - or more - to one.
One Feb. 3 Lieut. Stone's parents Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. Stone of 1609 S. St. Andrews Place, received a laconic message from their fighting son: 'Feel fin. Got three. Love...'
Mr and Mrs Stone
are living temporarily near Randolph Field, Tex., to be near their youngest son Wes, 21, who is training to be a military pilot at the same school where Earl learned to fly.
Ear Stone was a member of the 17th Pursuit Squadron with Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Bataan.
His battling unit held out against greatly superior forces, attacking in swift hit-and-run raids day after day.
Shortly after knocking three Japs out of the sky he was wounded in a dog fight but parachuted to safely.
Stone was born here [Los Angeles, CA], became captain of the football team at Franklin Avenue School, won honors as a debate captain in high school and was graduated by the Los Angeles campus of the University of California in 1940.
Credit: Los Angeles Times Date: circa March 1942
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