Name:
Glen Leroy Weirich
Rank:
Private
Serial Number:
35544533
Unit:
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
Date of Death:
1944-06-06
State:
Indiana
Cemetery:
Cambridge American Cemetery, United Kingdom
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
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Pvt Glen Leroy Weirich, member of the 3/506th Parachute Regiment, took off from Station 463 in Exeter, Devon, UK to drop at 0140 over Albany. The C-47 and its paratroopers were nicknamed Chalk 15, one of three aircraft designated to carry additional munitions and TNT in wing loads. The plane did not make it, shot down by flak at dawn on D-Day which ignited the TNT and sent it spiraling down into the French countryside. Weirich’s body was never found or identified, prompting him to be listed on Cambridgeshire’s MIA Tablets on July 7th 1945.