Military Involvement
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John Jacob Van der Zee was born July 22, 1914 to Jacob and Ethel Alice McKnight Van der Zee. He died May 2, 1947 in a plane crash at Mitchel Field, New York and is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Col. Van der Zee served in Iwo Jima with the U.S. Army Air Corps 531st Fighter Squadron, 21st Fighter Group, 7th Fighter Command in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
ServiceMen Research done by WWII Researcher, Pat Holt Juon, Oct 2023