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Personal info

Full name
STERNBERG, Charles W
Date of birth
1922
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
16005155
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
9 May 1944
Place of death
Hammerstein, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 22 21

Immediate family

Members
Walter C. Sternberg (father)
Isabell E. (Bass) Sternberg (mother)
Jack Sternberg (brother)
William Sternberg (brother)
Arline Sternberg (sister)
Dorothy Sternberg (sister)
Caroll Sternberg (brother)
Donald Sternberg (brother)
Maxine (Green) Sternberg (wife)

More information

Pvt Charles W. Sternberg attended high school for one year.

He joined the Regular Army in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 11 July 1940 eight days after he pled guilty of stealing $15 worth of automobile accessories and on the same day his case was to go before the judge of sentencing.

After the war, his buddy, Pfc Willard Wells, wrote to his parents, to tell them about the day Charles Sternberg saved his life in a battle in North Africa. They were fighting side by side when the order was given to run for shelter. When Pvt Sternberg was save, he missed his comrade. He went back under fire, found him wounded and carried him to safety. "He was the best friend I ever had", he said.

Pvt Sternberg was taken prisoner of war and died in Stalag II-B.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record / World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1940 Census / Virginia, Marriage Records

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Milwaukee Journal - 7 April 1943