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Lt Norman Church Streit died Christmans Day on Western Front.
Young Streit, a lieutenant in the infantry, was in his 26th year. He was born in Staten Island, New York, where his mother was living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mathewson, during World War I while her husband was engaged with the Army of the Unites States at Vladivostok.
After Mr. Streit came back to the United States, they returned to their old home at Missoula, Montana. Lt Streit was reared in Missoula, graduated from Missoula high school and from Montana State University in 1941. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity of Montana State University and served as manager of the football Grizzlies for two seasons.

Lieutenant Streit had been in the Army for two and a half years, serving as a first lieutenant in the motorized division. He first was detailed at Camp Hale, then to the Mount Rainier winter troop detachment. He saw strenuous action in the campaign in the taking of Kiska. Returning for leave after the Aleutian campaign, he was detailed to Camp Carson and then sent overseas. He was with the American armies invading Normandy in June, 1944 and advanced with his division into Germany. His family saw him last during the holiday period of 1943, when he was home on leave.