[photos courtesy Rex Combs collection]

(above) Grave marker for SSgt Alvin H. Henderson at Plot A Row 7 Grave 122 in the Molenhoek American Cemetery, Holland.

SSgt Henderson was killed in action on September 17, 1944 after a number of courageous and heroic actions for which he was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (read citation) and the Purple Heart. 

SGT. A. H. HENDERSON
Reburial services for Sgt. Alvin H. Henderson. 21-year-old Oklahoma City  soldier who was killed in Holland while serving with 508th Parachute infantry, 82nd Airborne division, will be Saturday in Hunter funeral home. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
   Henderson was born in Denison. Texas, and came to Oklahoma City when 12. He attended Capitol Hill junior and senior high school and the University of Oklahoma medical school. He was killed Sept. 18. 1944.
   A member of the Capitol Hill Baptist church, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Ruby C. Henderson, 329 SE 18; his father, A. F. Henderson, Clendenin. W. Va.; one brother. Royce, home address, and his sister, Mrs. Otto Rose Jr., 1736 NW 17.
[The Daily Oklahoman. Oklahoma City, OK, 28 Jan 1949, Fr, Page 6]

SSgt Henderson's remains were repatriated after the war and now rest in Section 28 of the Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City (Oklahoma), OK

Alvin enlisted in the army at Oklahoma City, OK on 17 October 1942.

Cpl Henderson was captured in Normandy on D-Day.  He made it back to American lines (3rd Bn, 116th Inf) on 3 August 1944.  He returned to England on 9 August 1944 and was  interviewed for an Escape and Evasion report which indicated had suffered a "slight bayonet wound in right hand" He was promoted to Sgt on 14 August.

Jim Blue's diary entry regarding the attack on Belvedere Tower in Nijmegen said "Sgt. Henderson ran through machine gun fire to throw phosphorous grenades into the building. Withdrawing back across the street he was mortally wounded."