Stanley G. Steinke

Navigator on Big StinkNagasaki Mission

Tinian IslandWendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranNagasaki Mission

Stanley G. Steinke was a second lieutenant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron of the 509th Composite Group. He served as the navigator of the Necessary Evil, but flew in the Big Stink during the Nagasaki Mission.

C-14 Crew on Tinian. Steinke is standing in the top row, second from the left. Photo courtesy of Richard H. Campbell and the Janet Chapman Pence Collection from the Air Force Museum.

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