US PARAS Veasey, Robert J.

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Veasey ​

• FORENAME

Robert J. ​

• UNIT

508 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company G) ​

• RANK

Corporal ​

• NUMBER

12187655 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

20th September 1944 ​

• AGE

21 ​

• GRAVESITE

Netherlands American Cemetery,Margraten,Netherlands Plot B Row 11 Grave 30 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Queens County,New York​

born 1923 New York​

entered service 21.11.1942 New York,New York​

USAAC​

305 Bomber Group (364 Bomber Squadron)​

parachute rigger​

while on 14 days leave visited his friend Merle Beach of Company G,508 PIR and jumped into Holland with them (declared AWOL)​

headstone shows wrong date of death as 17.9.1944​

KIA Thorensche Molen,Holland ​

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