AIR COMMANDO Akstin, John Joseph

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Akstin ​

• FORENAME

John Joseph​

• UNIT

1 AC Group (6 Fighter Squadron) ​

• RANK

Second Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

0-715425 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

7th March 1945 ​

• AGE

25​

• GRAVESITE

National Memorial Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii Plot F Row 1 Grave 208 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Massachusetts​

born 5.8.1919, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA​

employed by Mr Adolf Matukevich​

16.10.1940 draft card Worcester, Massachusetts​

award Air Medal ​

crashed due to spin upon return from a mission (Hay Field)​

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[mikemolloy]

RIP, Lt Akstin.

He was the best friend of my cousin, Lt Brents Lowry, who perished a few weeks earlier. During research in my family tree, I wrote up this account of Lt Lowry, and it includes a letter Lt Akstin wrote to Lowry's parents.

Brents M. Lowry Jr - Memorial Day Piece

Remembering 2Lt Brents Mynatt Lowry, Jr. Memorial Day, May 30, 2016 By Michael Kent Molloy They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.-- 4th stanza from “Ode of R...

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