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SSGT Levi Alfred Dikeman

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SSGT Levi Alfred Dikeman

Birth
Holdrege, Phelps County, Nebraska, USA
Death
11 Jan 1944 (aged 22)
Germany
Burial
Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.7562833, Longitude: -105.0956194
Plot
Block 68
Memorial ID
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Serial No. #37333470
Enlistment Date: 08/22/1942
331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group(Heavy)

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Denver County, Colorado...Finding Of Death...Died as Prisoner Of War.

U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, lists his burial location as Crown Hill Cemetery in Denver, Colorado...Repatriated in 1949.

Information obtained from http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/6721:
Tail Gunner on B-17G-10-DL Flying Fortress #42-37798 "BIG STOOP" that was shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed at Rahden, 17 miles SE of Diepholz, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 1883. Possibly killed by irate civilians.
Serial No. #37333470
Enlistment Date: 08/22/1942
331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group(Heavy)

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Denver County, Colorado...Finding Of Death...Died as Prisoner Of War.

U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, lists his burial location as Crown Hill Cemetery in Denver, Colorado...Repatriated in 1949.

Information obtained from http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/6721:
Tail Gunner on B-17G-10-DL Flying Fortress #42-37798 "BIG STOOP" that was shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed at Rahden, 17 miles SE of Diepholz, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 1883. Possibly killed by irate civilians.


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