Name:
John Anthony Foch Heffernan
Rank:
Flight Officer
Serial Number:
J/20361
Unit:
619 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-06-03
State:
Cemetery:
Hamburg Cemetery (CWGC), Hamburg, Germany
Plot:
10A
Row:
D
Grave:
2
Decoration:
Comments:
John Anthony Foch Heffernan was born in November 22, 1918 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was the son of Francis Michael Joseph and Helen Gertrude Heffernan; husband of Athelene Rose Heffeman, of Los Angeles, California. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Pilot of an aircraft during World War II. John died in a night raid during the Berlin Blitz above Wense, Germany on January 3, 1944. He is now buried in the Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Ohlsdorf, Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany. He was one of the many brave Americans of the Royal Canadian Air Force who lost their lives in aerial operations against the German forces.