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WESTLUND, Clarence Rodney - Date of
birth
23 July 1923 -
Age
20 - Place of
birth
Braham, Isanti County, Minnesota -
Hometown
Carlton County, Minnesota
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
17036038 -
Rank
Sergeant -
Function
Ball Turret Gunner -
Unit
333rd Bombardment Squadron,
94th Bombardment Group, Heavy
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Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal
Death
-
Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
9 April 1944 - Place of
death
Baltic Sea, 1 km off the beach of Elmenhorst, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten - Walls of the Missing
Immediate family
-
Members
Christine Westlund (grandmother)
Plane data
- Serial
number
42-97080 -
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Warnemunde, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the Arado/Heinkel aviation industry
MACR: 3800
More information
Sgt Clarence R. Westlund attended Cloquet High School.He volunteered for the Air Corps at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 15 December 1941.
This aircraft was seen to circle down immediately after bombs away and crashed into the sea near the target and exploded. Time of this observation and happening was at 1225 hours. Various crews reported seeing two, three, six and ten chutes leave the aircraft.
The 10 men of the crew tried to parachute. Seven of them drowned, three men were brought ashore by a revenue cutter and handed over to the Naval Airbase HQ. of Warnemunde.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com - MACR
Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Cloquet High School Yearboook 1940, Joek Hulsmann / Tony Glavan