Albert Joseph JENSEN

Source : Alec Johnston 

Parents : Albert J & Gretta M Keating JENSEN

Brothers : Walter B & Kristian J 

Half - brothers : George J. Bartlett & Richard A. Jensen

Source : Alec Johnston

MIA (06/06/1944)

KIA (01/08/1944)

Goes anonymous at Le Touquet then

CEMETERY TEMPORARY of  St André N°3572

Story of Cemetery Temporary  

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

Albert is the youngest of a family of 3 children from Boston, around 1940 they moved further north to Vermont and Albert began to practice as a lumberjack. 
The country soon went to war and 3 months later Albert joined the US Army. 

After being designated to join the armoured forces, he was trained in the 3rd Replacement Depot with 5th and 9th Battalion company B. 

He was eventually assigned to the 70th Tank Battalion, Company A to join a crew of M4 Shermans. On D-Day his armored was transported by LCT (Landing Craft Tank) to the beach in order to be landed on Utah Beach, the objective of his company would be to support the 4th Infantry Division in its advance inland. 
The Sherman of the company A were equipped in DD "Duplex Drive" with flotation skirts to be launched from ships at sea and accompany the landing barges. Thus all the tanks of the A company could reach the beach except 4 of them whose LCT hit an undetected mine. Almost all the crews perished and some bodies could not be recovered. 

So that of Cpl. JENSEN was found only in mid-July off the Touquet by the German army who buried anonymously not far from there.

Once the Pas-de-Calais was liberated, the body could be repatriated to one of the temporary American cemeteries and was finally buried in the Normandy Americain Cemetery where it still rests today. 

Source : Victor Daniel

Source : Victor Daniel

Source : Victor Daniel

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