Pvt Albert L. Heinz Headquarters Co, 2nd
Battalion was captured on D-Day along with other men of the 508th.
On the following day the POWs were being transported by truck convoy
which was strafed by an allied aircraft in the vicinity of Le
Mesnil-Vigot, France.
Albert was amongst the fourteen 508th
personnel who were killed or died of wounds (another five men from other
units were also killed) due to that incident. Heinz was awarded the Purple Heart.
Pvt Heinz was initially
interred in in Plot P, Row 2, Grave 25 of the Marigny Cemetery,
Orglandes, France. Following the war his family opted to have his
remains returned to the U.S.. The State of
Pennsylvania's Veterans Burial Record for Pvt Heinz indicates that he
was reinterred in Section O, Grave No. 2 in the Bellevue Cemetery,
Philadelphia (Philadelphia County), PA when his remains were
repatriated, probably in 1947 or 1948.
However, all the interments in that cemetery were removed
in 1951 and reinterred in the Philadelphia Memorial Park (Frazer
County), Pennsylvania. The specific location of the new gravesite
is being researched- |