Weeklund Oscar A.

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Oscar A. Weeklund is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

B24 (41-29371) Crash Marker -466th Bomber Group

Name:

Oscar A. Weeklund

Rank:

First Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-690016

Unit:

786th Bomber Squadron, 466th Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Death:

1944-06-25

State:

Minnesota

Cemetery:

Brittany American Cemetery, France

Plot:

Tablets of the Missing

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Purple Heart, Air Medal

Comments:

Born in 1915
From Minneapolis, Minnesota
Son of Oscar Adolphus Weeklund and Hannah Elisabeth Cheleen Weeklund.
Married to Beatrice Kell Osgood Jones
Brother of Mildred Gertrude, Wayne D, and Lucille E. Mohring
Pilot of the B-24 Liberator 41-29371 �Crippled Bitch� that took off from Station 120 Attlebridge in Norfolk, UK on a mission to bomb the airfield at Bretigny-sur-Orge in France. The plane was hit by flak before it had released its bombs. The flaming plane was partially evactuated before it disintegrated in an in-flight explosion at 20,000 feet at around 7:30 pm. Weeklund was killed in the explosion.