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SERGEANT ANDREW W. OLSEN
hailed from Dorothy NJ, in Weymouth Township, Atlantic County. Initially
rejected by the Army due to a heart murmur, he reapplied and was
inducted in 1942. Assigned to the 853rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation he
went overseas in October of 1942. Sergeant
Andrew W. Olsen was one of 1015 American servicemen lost when the
transport ship HST Rohna was
sunk by a German guided missile on the evening of November 26, 1943.
Sergeant Olsen was survived by his parents, sister Margaret, and two
brothers, both of whom served in the Armed Forces during world War II. The
circumstance of Sergeant Olsen's death and those of the other men aboard
the Rohna was kept secret, and the Olsen family was not made made aware
of this information until the summer of 2002, when a
memorial service for the 20 South Jersey victims of the Rohna
tragedy was organized and held at American
Legion Memorial Post 274 in Camden NJ. |
