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Personal info

Full name
TESTON, Welton P
Date of birth
5 September 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Brownwood, Brown County, Texas
Hometown
Burbank, Los Angeles County, California

Military service

Service number
39256008
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Right Waist Gunner
Unit
367th Bombardment Squadron,
306th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart,
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 January 1944
Place of death
Vlessendijk, near the farm of Mr. Kremer
Nieuw Heeten, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 15 21

Immediate family

Members
Homer P. Teston (father)
Gertrude M. Teston (mother)
Maggie/Peggy (Thomas) Teston (stepmother)
Ramon G. Teston (brother)
Vera Teston (sister)
Veda Teston (sister)
Athelea Teston (sister)
Jo Dell Teston (stepsister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-31236
Data
Type: B-17G
Nickname: Arch Bishop
Mission: Halberstadt, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the Junkers aviation industry
MACR: 1933

More information

S/Sgt Welton P. Teston enlisted in Los Angeles on 11 September 1942.

The plane #42-31538 collided with plane #42-31236 after being attacked by a FW 190 of II/JG26.

All crew members of both airplanes, twenty men in total, were killed.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Raf Dyckmans, ww.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 / 1910 census / 1930 census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8BC-5VF, www.fold3.com - WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Jeannick Tapell