Henry Bernard Westhoff Jr
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Object Number - UPL 60236 - S/Sgt Henry B. Westhoff Jr
Assigned to 838BS, 487BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Caen, France in B-24 42-52629 'Sweatin' It Out'. 6-Jun-44 Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: AM, PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 487th Bomb Group 838th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Lavenham/Alpheton Airfield
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Newburgh, New York | 25 July 1917 | Born Newburgh, New York |
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Died Killed in action |
English Channel off Cherbourg Peninsula | 6 June 1944 | 35 miles NW of Cherbourg Peninsula |
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Buried |
Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial Colleville-sur-Mer, France | Tablets of the Missing Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France |
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Sources
ABMC, MACR 5484 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.487thbg.org/Photos/GrossCrew.shtml
