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Justesen George Andrew

Name:
George Andrew Justesen
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
Unit:
Date of Death:
1944-09-24
State:
Iowa
Cemetery:
Jefferson Barracks National Cem., Missouri
Plot:
Section 82
Row:
Grave:
33
Decoration:
Comments:

George Andrew Justesen was born on November 2, 1920 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. He served in the US Air Corps as a Second Lieutenant and Pilot of C-87 Liberator Express #44-39203 based at Jorhat, India that crashed into a mountain between 3,000-4,000 feet elevation on September 24, 1944.

On November 4, 1944, a search party located the wreck in the hills on the Dafflaghur Tea Estate, about two miles from the village of Teipu, in North-East India. The impact of the Army transport into the mountainside caused a landslide which had partially covered what remained of the airplane.

All four airmen aboard had been killed. No bodies could be identified, but dog tags were found at the burned out wreck scene at that time. George is now buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA in a common grave with his crew.

He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com