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Personal info

Full name
CHRISTIANSON, Carl Lenard
Date of birth
7 August 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31309036
Rank
Private
Function
Ammunition Handler
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
Near Ettelbruck, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 11 76

Immediate family

Members
Carl F. Christianson (father)
Jenny C. Christianson (mother)
Paul L. Christianson (brother)

More information

Pvt Carl L. Christianson attended high school for four years and was a mechanic, employed by the Earnshaw Knitting Mills when he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 April 1943. He was sent overseas in July 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Watertown Sun 19 January 1945 - courtesy of Paula Zisson Connor