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Sgt Owen B. Sweeney Jr. volunteered for the US Army at Fort Hayes, Ohio on 17 November 1942.

Crashed shortly after take-off and while joining up.

Sweeney Family completes Job
Youngstown, O, March 12 (UP)
Pvt. Robert P. Sweeney, 20, was enroute home for good today, the War Department having decreed that the Sweeney family had done its bit.
His older brother, Cpl. Thomas H. Sweeney, 26, has been missing in action in France since July 30. A. Sweeney second brother, Sgt. Owen B. Sweeney, 22, was killed over France Jan.14.
Robert had not been told of Owen's death. Wounded in battle Jan. 24, he was treated at a hospital and ordered home Trough War Department recognition of "family sacrifice and contribution to the war effort.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Solers, France.

His brother Thomas H. Sweeney is remembered at Normandy American Cemetery on the Tablets of the Missing. His brother Robert was wounded in action on 24 January 1945. He was treated in a hospital and ordered home through War Department recognition of family sacrifice and contribution to the war effort.