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TWETEN, Ernest Ames - Date of
birth
31 July 1920 -
Age
24 - Place of
birth
Heimdal, Wells County, North Dakota -
Hometown
Wells County, North Dakota
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
37301968 -
Rank
Staff Sergeant -
Function
Tail Gunner -
Unit
579th Bombardment Squadron,
392nd Bombardment Group, Heavy
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Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal
Death
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Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
9 October 1944 - Place of
death
North Sea
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten - Walls of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Melvin Tweten (father)
Sarah J. (Hagen) Tweten (mother)
Judith L. Tweten (sister)
Plane data
- Serial
number
42-7470 -
Data
Type: B-24H
Nickname: Exterminator
Destination: Vegesack, Germany
MACR: 879
More information
S/Sgt Ernest A. Tweten entered the Army on 1 September 1942.On 9 October 1943 the aircraft was attacked by enemy fighters in the vicinity of coast out, north of the target at Vegesack after the group attacked this target. No German reports were available on the final situation regarding this crew and the Liberator. It could be concluded only that this aircrew went down just off shore into the North Sea waters, and never recovered.
Sgt Tweten is remembered at Viking Cemetery in Maddock, Benson County, North Dakota with a memorial marker.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Dean Johnson (Wells cty V.S.O.), www.B24.net, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com