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Personal info

Full name
RUSECKY, Alexander
Date of birth
31 March 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey
Hometown
Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O-824894
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Pilot
Unit
550th Bombardment Squadron,
385th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 March 1945
Place of death
Slype-Middelkerke, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 7 10

Immediate family

Members
Joseph Rusecky (father)
Annastasia Rusecky (mother)
Joseph Rusecky (brother)
Annastasia Rusecky (sister)
Sophia Rusecky (sister)
Walter Rusecky (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
43-38273
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Sugar-Jo
Destination: Ulm, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the marshalling yard
MACR: 16036

More information

1st Lt Alexander Rusecky enlisted on 3 February 1942. He was sent overseas on 22 October 1944.

The aircraft collided with airplane #42-38035 and both were totally destroyed.

Eight crew members were killed, one man survived.

He is remembered at Saint Vladimir Cemetery in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / U.S.,
Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.fold3.com, MACR, www.findagrave.com, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Tex*Oma / Roy Plog Collection