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Jankowski Henry E.

Name:
Henry E. Jankowski
Rank:
Private First Class
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Date of Death:
1945-05-23
State:
New York
Cemetery:
St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Cem., New York
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Henry E. Jankowski was born on September 25, 1918. He served in the Coast Artillery Corps as a Private First Class during World War II. On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. PFC Jankowski died at the age of 26 and is now buried in the Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Cemetery, Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA.