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Personal info

Full name
COFFIN, Alfred Bernard
Date of birth
7 July 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Summerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31309117
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 March 1945
Place of death
Drop Zone W
0.75 miles north of Flüren, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 18 8

Immediate family

Members
Herbert L. Coffin (father)
Elizabeth M. Coffin (mother)
Herbert Coffin (brother)
Eileen Coffin (sister)
Thomas Coffin (brother)
Charles Coffin (brother)
Isabell Coffin (sister)
Joseph Coffin (brother)
John Coffin (brother)

More information

Pvt Alfred B. Coffin worked in a foundry.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 April 1943.

Pvt Alfred B. Coffin was killed while parachuting into Drop Zone W.

Source of information: Tom Verheijden, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/507/507_honor_cd.html, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Enlistment Records, 17th Airborne Division Historical Report of Operation Varsity, Book: The Last Drop, Operation Varsity March 24-25, 1945 by Stephen L. Wright

Photo source: Tom Verheijden, Julie Bernier