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Personal info

Full name
ANDERSON, Martin Oliver
Date of birth
5 March 1907
Age
37
Place of birth
Linsell Township, Marshall County, Minnesota
Hometown
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37589437
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
157th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 December 1944
Place of death
Mertzwiller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 26 35

Immediate family

Members
Martin A. Anderson (father)
Segred (Myhre) Anderson (mother)
Arthur A. Anderson (brother)
Rudolph Anderson (brother)
Bernard R. Anderson (brother)
Donald D. Anderson (brother)
Sylvia K. Anderson (sister)
Gladys Anderson (sister)
Lillian V. Anderson (sister)
Florence (Morrison) Anderson (wife)
La Verne Anderson (daughter)

More information

Pvt Martin O. Anderson enlisted in Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 8 February 1944.

He was a smith and was employed at J. R. Clark Company.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Hochfelden, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Martell Family Tree, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com. www.newspapers.com – Star Tribune Minnesota 24 December 1944
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