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Personal info

Full name
HOLQUIN, Sam A
Date of birth
8 February 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Los Angeles County, California
Hometown
Los Angeles County, California

Military service

Service number
39573285
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Tail Gunner
Unit
725th Bombardment Squadron,
451st Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 October 1944
Place of death
Vienna, Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 12 25

Immediate family

Members
Amanda A. Holquin (mother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-51764
Data
Type: B-24J
Destination: Vienna, Austria
Mission: Bombing of the motor factory
MACR: 9047

More information

Sgt Sam A. Holquin enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 14 May 1943.

2nd Lt Edmund J. Smith:
“Upon reaching the target, two engines of the subject ship burst into flame, after which it slid beneath us and was lost from my view.”

Sgt Earnest Clenon:
“I assume that Sgt Holquin stayed in the plane a few minutes after the waist gunner left, possible to see what happened to the ball gunner as the two were exceptionally close friends. He was then either hit by subsequent bursts of flak, or killed when the plane blew up.”

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com – William L. Beigel, www.archives.gov
 – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.fold3.com, www.findagrave.com, http://aircrewremembered.com/USAAFCombatOperations/Oct.44.html
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