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Gerhard Lund attended high school for 2 years. He married Dorothy Croft on 23 October 1943 in Fargo, North Dakota. Their son Gary Stuart Lund was born in May 1944.

He trained at Camp Mackall.

He was awarded the Bronze Star twice. One of the citations stated that during the Battle of the Bulge, his unit was bogging down for lack of ammunition and supplies. He drove a jeep, loaded with vital supplies, to the front lines with artillery and mortar shells blastings deep craters around him every foot of the way. Also, after a day of bitter fighting in knee-deep snow, the battalion withdrew and S/Sgt Lund frried back and forth between the battle line and medical aid station, carrying wounded in stretchers across his jeep until the last of the cassualties had been evacuated.

At the time of his deat his brother Ronald served as a fireman first class with the seabeed on Tinian Island.