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Hedrick, Alvin, S/Sgt.
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Home Town Red Creek
Date of Passing Sep 30, 1969
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Last Known Activity:
S/SGT ALVIN HEDRICK ENTERED THE SERVICE ON 20 JUL 1942. HE ATTENDED AAF TECHINICAL TRAINING AT BRIGGS MANUFACTURING COMPANY IN DETROIT, BUCKLEY FIELD AND LOWRY FIELDS IN COLORADO. ON 10 MAR 1944 S/SGT HEDRICK ARRIVED IN ITALY AND WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 772ND BOMB SQUADRON, 463RD BOMB GROUP, 15TH AIR FORCE WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 17 SEPTEMBER 1945. ON 8 OCTOBER 1945 S/SGT HEDRICK WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED AT FORT MEADE, MARYLAND. ALVIN HEDRICK PASSED AWAY IN ROMNEY, WV ON 30 SEPTEMBER 1969 AND WAS LAID TO REST AT THE FLANAGAN HILL CEMETERY NEAR WHERE HE WAS BORN IN RED CREEK, TUCKER COUNTY, WV
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Northern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
July / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Northern France Campaign 25 July to 14 September 1944) Bombardment along a five-mile stretch of the German line enabled the Allies to break through on 25 July. While some armored forces drove southward into Brittany, others fanned out to the east and, overcoming a desperate counterattack, executed a pincers movement that trapped many Germans in a pocket at Falaise. The enemy fell back on the Siegfried Line, and by mid-September 1944 nearly all of France had been liberated. During these operations in France, while light and medium bombers and fighter-bomber aircraft of Ninth Air Force had been engaged in close support and interdictory operations, Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had continued their strategic bombing.
