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Personal info

Full name
HESLIN, John Redmond
Date of birth
11 July 1921
Age
22
Place of birth
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31080006
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Radio Operator
Unit
524th Bombardment Squadron,
379th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
25 July 1943
Place of death
Ritzerau, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 39 21

Immediate family

Members
James F. Heslin (father)
Winnifred L. (Chisholm) Heslin (mother)
Duncan F. Heslin (brother)
Muriel Heslin (sister)
Winnifred Heslin (sister)
James P. Heslin (brother)
Robert P. Heslin (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-5917
Data
Type: B-17F
Destination: Hamburg, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the shipyard
MACR: 1767

More information

According to the pilot, 2nd Lt Phillip A. Mohr the airplane was hit by flak.

He also remembered that the parachute of T/Sgt Heslin didn't open.

Six crew members survived and were taken prisoner, four men were killed.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch,www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com – MACR, www.ancestry.com – U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Family Trees / 1930 Census, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten