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STAFF SERGEANT JOHN J. STAINKER was born in New Jersey in 1922. His father passed away before April of 1930. The 1930 census indicates that in April of that year he was living at 615 Hunter Street, Gloucester City NJ, with his mother Charlotte Manduka Stainker, who supported the family as a dressmaker in a dress factory, grandfather father William Manduka, who still worked as a shipyard electrician at the age of 70, and siblings William, Charlotte M., and Helen, at 615 Hunter Street in Gloucester City NJ. At some point after 1930, his widowed mother married Paul Gebhart, a produce salesman who in 1930 lived at 217 Hudson Street in Gloucester City. John Stainker graduated from Gloucester High School in 1940, and worked at the RCA-Victor plant in Camden NJ until he entered the Army. John J. Stainker enlisted in the United States Army on October 12, 1942. Qualifying for flight duty, he was assigned as a gunner to a bomber crew in the 328th Bomber Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group, Heavy. He was stationed in Hardwick, Norfolk, in England. Flying in a B-24 Liberator bomber, he was lost over France on January 7, 1944. He had last written home on December 30, 1943, and had enclosed his Air Medal with the letter. John J. Stainker was survived by his mother Charlotte Manduka Stainker Gebhardt, of 217 Hudson Street, Gloucester City, and his siblings. His mother was the President of the Gloucester City Mothers Service Club at the time of his death. His death was reported in the evening edition of the Camden Courier-Post on March 23, 1943. His brother William was with the Army in England, another brother, Earl, was also serving as a gunner in the Army Air Corps, in South America. |
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