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1Lt Walter Robert Nelson Veteran

Birth: 8 Nov 1920
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death: 17 Jan 1945 (aged 24)
At Sea
Monument: Honolulu Memorial

Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA Add to Map
Plot: Courts of the Missing
Memorial ID: 56126831 View Source

1st LT USAAF WWII
ASN O-755397
30th BG 819th B Sq
CoPilot

He was the son of August Walfred Nelson and Anna Erickson. He had sisters Elsie E (Nelson) Berg, Corrine A (Nelson) Harmison, and Virginia Helen Nelson.

He was lost at sea in B-24J #44-40528 'Hell from Heaven' that ditched off Iwo Jima.

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