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Personal info

Full name
EINIK, Theodore
Date of birth
15 May 1921
Age
24
Place of birth
Naugatuck, New Haven County, Connecticut
Hometown
Jackson Heights, Long Island, New York

Military service

Service number
11040940
Rank
Master Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Squadron,
1391st Army Air Force Base Unit
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
3 July 1945
Place of death
4.1 miles east of Villa do Porto
Azores

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 8 17

Immediate family

Members
Peter Einik (father)
Mary R. (Kuczek) Einik (mother)
Mary Einik (sister)
Angeline Einik (sister)
John Einik (brother)
Helen Einik (sister)
Dorothy D. Einik (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-72680
Data
Type: C-54D
Destination: Santa Maria Army Air Force Base, Azores

More information

M/Sgt Theodore Einik studied at the Bridgeport Trade School and was employed at the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Hartford, Connecticut on 31 December 1941 at Hartford, Connecticut. He was first stationed in Greenland and returned to the U.S.A. in March 1944. In April he was ordered to the Azores.

He was killed when the plane, in which he was a passenger, hit a mountain slope during the descent to land at Santa Maria Army Air Base at approximately 01:00 h. at night. All four crew members and passengers were killed. They were initially buried at the Temporary Military Cemetery of Santa Maria on 5 July 1945.

M/Sgt Einik was disinterred and evacuated to Ardennes Cemetery on 22 January 1947 and buried there in a temporary grave on 26 March 1947. He was again disinterred on 2 December 1948 and given his final resting place in April 1949.

His brother John served in Italy with the 15th Air Force as an aerial gunner and later as a member of a ground crew.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census, Naugatuck Daily News 7 August 1945, 7 September 1945, IDPF

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Ray Tamowski, Scovill Bulletin 16 July 1945