F/Sgt. John Campbell Willson
Born: 7 April 1922 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Parents: Charles A. & Euphemia L. Willson
– moved to the United States to find work
Siblings: 4 brothers, 1 sister (known)
Home: 120 North Thirteenth Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois
Education:
– Melrose Park School
– Lincoln School
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1941
Enlisted:
– Royal Canadian Air Force
Serial Number: R/145481
Training:
– Bellefonte, Ottawa, Canada
Rank: Flight Sergeant
– Lancaster Bomber
Unit: 44th Royal Air Force Squadron
Killed in Action:
– 22 June 1944
– plane airborne Dunholme Lodge – 10:55 PM
– bombed synthetic petroleum refinery
– plane shot down during bombing mission over Ruhr, Belgium
– crashed between the coal mine and As-Lanklaar Road, (Limburg), 10 km SSW
of Masseik in Belgium
– parents learned of his death when a member of his crew was liberated from
a German POW Camp in 1945
Buried:
– Lanklaar Communal Cemetery, Lanklaar, Belgium
Note: Parents moved to Encinitas, California, during war
