Bert Stiles was born in Denver, Colorado in 1920.  He was the son of Bert W. Stiles.  He graduated from Colorado College in 1942.  He was a fiction writer whose works appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Liberty, and American magazines.  He was the pilot of a P-51 Mustang fighter bomber with the 505th Fighter Squadron of the 339th Fighter Group and he flew 35 combat missions.  On 26 Novmeber 1944, he was Killed in Action while on a mission over Germany.

Informaiton courtesy of Erwin Derhaag.