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NISULA, Halsey S - Date of
birth
23 September 1921 -
Age
23 - Place of
birth
Massachusetts -
Hometown
Gardner, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O2065604 -
Rank
Second Lieutenant -
Function
Navigator -
Unit
414th Bombardment Squadron,
97th Bombardment Group, Heavy
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Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
Death
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Status
Died non-Battle - Date of
death
12 April 1945 - Place of
death
Near Mauthausen, Austria
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Oscar A. Nisula (father)
Alice E. (Brown) Nisula (mother)
James O. Nisula (brother)
Ralph U. Nisula (brother)
Richard A. Nisula (brother)
Virginia T. Nisula (sister)
Plane data
- Serial
number
44-8730 -
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Linz, Austria
Mission: Bombing of the marshalling yards
MACR: 12715
More information
2nd Lt Halsey S. Nisula graduated from Gardner High School in 1939 and was a sales clerk.He enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, on 11 June 1943.
S/Sgt Francis C. Neilson:
"Mission 25 February 1945. Just before bombs away that day, aircraft #730 peeled off with smoke coming from one engine. The aircraft was losing altitude rapidly, and immediately afterward started to break into pieces. As I kept watching the aircraft, I saw 6 to 8 chutes come out and open up. That is all I saw."
He was shot down on his 20th mission and he was executed by the SS in Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
He is remembered at the Green Bower Cemetery in Gardner, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – Nisula Family Tree / 1940 Census, www.fold3.com, www.findagrave.com – Ed Poulin
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Have Paws will travel / Ed Poulin / TCSchultz