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Personal info

Full name
LUDVIKSON, Magnus Raymond
Date of birth
29 November 1913
Age
30
Place of birth
Libby, Lincoln County, Montana
Hometown
Sacramento County, California

Military service

Service number
6562952
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Aerial Engineer
Unit
310th Squadron,
315th Troop Carrier Group
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 September 1944
Place of death
In a meadow at the Reethsestraat/Oude Rijksweg
Buurschap Reeth (community of Elst), The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 3 14

Immediate family

Members
Gabriel Ludvikson (father)
Agnethe S. (Jordanger) Ludvikson (mother)
Johanna Ludvikson (sister)
Ludvik Ludvikson (brother)
Steffen Ludvikson (brother)
Agnes Ludvikson (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
43-15612
Data
Type: C-47A
Nickname: Sea-Ration
Destination: Drop zone K, Driel, the Netherlands
Mission: Paratrooper drop
MACR: 10284

More information

T/Sgt Magnus R. Ludvikson joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army at McClellan Field, California on 9 September 1940.

Both his parents were born in Norway.

Statement of Capt Norman A. Greene:
"I was flying in a C-47 airplane No. 42-93085 at 17.21 hrs. 1 September 1944. I noticed that airplane no. 43-15612 was in distress. He was hit just before he got to Elst. After crossing the Waal he was turning towards Nijsengen at 50 to 100 feet going into a crash landing not on fire or the airplane was out of control."

The airplane carried paratroopers of the 1st or 2nd Battalion of the Polish 1st Para Brigade and was shot down after dropping the paratroopers.

The entire crew was killed. Right after the crash, their bodies were buried at the crash site by glider pilots.

T/Sgt Magnus R. Ludvikson was later buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Molenhoek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands before he was transferred to Margraten.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Marijke Poos