F/Sgt. John Campbell Willson

Parents: Charles A. & Euphemia L. Willson

    - moved to the United States to find work

Siblings: 4 brothers, 1 sister (known)

Home: 120 North Thirteenth Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois

Education:

    - Melrose Park School

    - Lincoln School

    - Proviso Township High School

        - Class of 1941

Enlisted:

    - Royal Canadian Air Force

Serial Number: R/145481

Training:

    - Behleforte, Ottawa, Canada

Rank: Flight Sergeant

    - air bomber 

    - Lancaster Bomber

Unit: 44th Royal Air Force Squadron

Killed in Action:

    - 22 June 1944

        - plane airborne Dunholme Lodge - 10:55 PM 

        - bombed synthetic petroleum refinery 

        - plane shot down during bombing mission over Ruhr, Belgium

        - crashed between coal mine and As-Lanklaar Road, (Limburg), 10 km SSW of Masseik in

          Belgium

     - parents learned of his death when a member of his crew was liberated from a German POW Camp

       in 1945

Buried:

    - Lanklaar Communal Cemetery, Lanklaar, Belgium

Note: Parents moved to Encinitas, California during war

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