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Flight Sergeant Meyer Greenstein

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Flight Sergeant Meyer Greenstein Veteran

Birth
Death
7 Jan 1945 (aged 26)
Hohrodberg, Departement du Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France
Burial
Munster, Departement du Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France Add to Map
Plot
Coll. grave.
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Flight Sergeant Meyer GREENSTEIN was killed in action January 7, 1945, when his Lancaster bomber crashed in the village of Hohrodberg near Munster in the Voges Mountains of France. The crash which killed seven Commonwealth airmen occurred next to a hospital, managed by Protestant nuns, for children with TB. One nun in particular, Ida Meiss, buried the seven airmen.

Military Service-
Service Number: R/219812
Trade: Air Bomber
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 103 RAF Squadron
Flight Sergeant Meyer Greenstein is commemorated on Page 520 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Flight Sergeant Meyer GREENSTEIN was killed in action January 7, 1945, when his Lancaster bomber crashed in the village of Hohrodberg near Munster in the Voges Mountains of France. The crash which killed seven Commonwealth airmen occurred next to a hospital, managed by Protestant nuns, for children with TB. One nun in particular, Ida Meiss, buried the seven airmen.

Military Service-
Service Number: R/219812
Trade: Air Bomber
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 103 RAF Squadron
Flight Sergeant Meyer Greenstein is commemorated on Page 520 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.

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