Hans Christian “Sonny” Erickson was born on August 2, 1917. He was the son of Hans Peter Eriksen and Matilda Twibill Eriksen. Sonny served as a Staff Sergeant and an Engineer on B-26B #41-18072, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

On July 4, 1944, his crew failed to return from a short navigational flight out of Toome, North Ireland when their plane crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. All men aboard were killed. The crew was buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and their remains were exhumed and transferred. SGT Erickson is now buried in the Clover Leaf Memorial Park, Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA.

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