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Personal info

Full name
JOHNSON, Ole Jacob
Date of birth
3 June 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Marshall County, South Dakota
Hometown
Sisseton, Roberts County, South Dakota

Military service

Service number
37586184
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 November 1944
Place of death
Near Vossenack, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 10 45

Immediate family

Members
John Johnson (father)
Mabel G. Johnson (mother)
Louise (Isaac) Johnson (wife)
Peter H. Johnson (son)

More information

Pvt Ole J. Johnson entered into the Army on 4 February 1944.
On the 1st of March 1945, Mrs. Mabel G. Johnson received a message from the War Department informing her that her son Pvt. Ole J. Johnson had been killed in action somewhere in Germany on November 9, 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, https://vetaffairs.sd.gov/sdwwiimemorial/default.htm, Maggie Elbert

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet