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Personal info

Full name
BRANSTED, Russell William Sr
Date of birth
11 November 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Ontonagon, Ontonagon County, Michigan
Hometown
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36292120
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 December 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 22 28

Immediate family

Members
Floyd W. Bransted Sr. (father)
Pearl (Melotte) Bransted (mother)
Floyd W. Bransted Jr. (brother)
Doris L. Bransted (sister)
Florence R. (Scharmer) Bransted (wife)
Russell W. Bransted Jr. (son)

More information

Sgt Russell W. Bransted Sr. attended college and was a maintenance painter.

He enlisted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 24 December 1942.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Lange Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.ancestry.com - Russell Lange / bschultz30169 / Lincoln High school Yearbook 1938