On September 23, 2009, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Technical Sergeant Robert J. Stinson, missing from World War II.

Technical Sergeant Stinson, who joined the U.S. Army Air Forces from California, served in the 424th Bombardment Squadron, 307th Bombardment Group (Heavy). On September 1, 1944, he was the engineer aboard a B-24J Liberator (serial number 42-73453) when it took off from Wakde Airfield in the Palau Islands on a bombing mission against enemy targets at Koror. During the mission, the aircraft was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire and crashed into the sea between the Koror and Babeldaub Islands, killing TSG Stinson. Enemy presence in the area prevented recovery operations for this Liberator at the time, and TSG Stinson was not recovered. Postwar search efforts for the aircraft wreckage and the missing crew members were also unsuccessful. In 2004, JPAC was contacted by the independent investigative organization Bent Prop Project that discovered aircraft wreckage on the ocean floor near the Liberator's suspected crash site. A joint JPAC/U.S. Navy investigative dive team recovered remains from this crash site and using modern forensic techniques, identified TSG Stinson.

Technical Sergeant Stinson is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

Robert J Stinson