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Personal info

Full name
OUELLET, Joyce Louis
Date of birth
20 June 1923
Age
20
Place of birth
Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California
Hometown
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

Military service

Service number
17127214
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Radio Operator/Gunner
Unit
524th Bombardment Squadron,
379th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 October 1943
Place of death
Singhofen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
N 22 13

Immediate family

Members
Joseph L. Ouellet (father)
Joyce O. (Yawman) Ouellet (mother)
Mabel J. Ouellet (sister)

Plane data

Serial number
42-3056
Data
Type: B-17F
Destination: Schweinfurt, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the ball bearing plants
MACR: 955

More information

Joyce Ouellet was a clerk.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of th United States at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 23 October 1942.

The airplane was shot down with a rocket by Feldwebel Mader in a BF-110G-2 of ZG 76/2. The airplane exploded in mid-air, killing the entire crew of ten men.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.ancestry.com, www.fold3.com

Photo source: www.fold3.com by Dr Vivian Rogers-Price, the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Research Center Director, Mary Ann Hunker - niece - courtesy of Maria de Graaf-Bessems, board member Stichting Adoptie Graven Amerikaanse Begraafplaats Margraten