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Personal info

Full name
WALUCK, Adolph
Date of birth
12 August 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Religion
Catholic

Military service

Service number
6147823
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Waist Gunner
Unit
563rd Bombardment Squadron,
388th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 April 1944
Place of death
Baltic Sea

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 24 17

Immediate family

Members
Anthony Waluck (father)
Mary Waluck (mother)
Chester Waluck (brother)
Stanley Waluck (brother)

Plane data

Serial number
42-107076
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Poznan, Polen
MACR: 3656

More information

The Target for the 45th CW was the Focke-Wulf Aircraft Factory at Poznan, and the Target for the 13th CW was the aircraft parts plant at Krezinki, both located in North Western Poland. The 4th CW attacked the Heinkel Works at Warnemunde.

On 27 June the body of the Right waist gunner, Sgt Adolph Waluck, was found in the water near Stouby Klint. It was brought to the Mortuary in Nykobing by the local police. On 28 June was laid to rest in the Svino Cemetery. His remains were disinterred on 8 May 1948 and were evacuated to the American Cemetery at Neuville-en-Condroz in Belgium, where he still has his final rest these days.

Source of information: Michel Beckers, Terry Hirsch, Ancestry.com - Boston Archdiocese Roman Catholic Sacramental Records, Massachusetts Federal Naturalization Records

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