Date of birth:

February 20th, 1917 (San Benito/Texas, USA)

Date of death:

April 14th, 1945 (Near Mulhausen, Duitsland)

Buried on:

Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial
Plot: B. Row: 17. Grave: 4.

Nationality:

American

Wilma ‘Dolly’ Vinsant volunteered for service in September 1942 and was an air evacuation nurse in the US Army Nurse Corps. As a nurse, she cared for wounded soldiers transferred by air from the front to hospitals in England and the United States. On 14 April 1945, Wilma made her last flight. The Douglas C-47 Skytrain in which she was flying crashed over Germany on 14 April 1945: all six occupants were killed in the crash. She is one of four women buried at Margraten.

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• Photo 1: Valley Morning Star
• Photo 2: Jan de Jager
• - FIELDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION, De gezichten van Margraten, Walburg Pers, 2020.
  - Wilma Visant Visitors Centre Margraten.
  

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