Francis Wiemerslage

World War II
Service #16146369
Unit549th Bomber Squadron, 385th Bomber Group, Heavy
RankSergeant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From Illinois
Date of DeathMarch 2 1945
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Notes

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sergeant Francis Wiemerslage were accounted for in 2021. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Tablets of the Missing” at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.