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Home Town Red Creek
Date of Passing Sep 30, 1969
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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/Southern France Campaign (1944)
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August / 1944
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September / 1944
Description (Southern France Campaign 15 August to 14 September 1944) While the Germans were retreating in Italy in the summer of 1944, the Allies diverted some of their strength in the theater to the invasion of Southern France. After preliminary bombardment, a combined seaborne-airborne force landed on the French Riviera on 15 August. Marseilles having been taken, Sevmth Army advanced up the Rhone Valley and by mid-September was in touch with Allied forces that had entered France from the north.