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Personal info

Full name
NESTLER, Fred
Date of birth
16 March 1926
Age
19
Place of birth
Spring Valley, Bureau County, Illinois
Hometown
Spring Valley, Bureau County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36909864
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Rimschweiler-Zweibrücken, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 29 62

Immediate family

Members
Max Nestler (father)
Ellen (Lane) Nestler (mother)
Mary L. Nestler (sister)
Audrey J. Nestler (sister)
Betty A. Nestler (sister)
Edward Nestler (brother)
Oscar Nestler (brother)

More information

Pfc Fred Nestler attended Hall High School. He was employed in the family owned Spring Valley Ice Cream Company when he enlisted on 16 March 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the head and thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
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