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PVT ALBERT L. HEINZ

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-