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Personal info

Full name
NELSON, Howard Clifford
Date of birth
10 July 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Dillon, Beaverhead County, Montana
Hometown
Crockett, Contra Costa County, California

Military service

Service number
39095086
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Squad Leader
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Fauvillers, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 7 14

Immediate family

Members
Jasper L. Nelson (father)
Margarett Nelson (mother)
Dagmar Nelson (sister)
Willie Nelson (brother)
Bernice G. (Hill) Nelson (wife)

More information

S/Sgt Howard C. Nelson graduated from Beaverhead County High School and attended Sacramento Junior College and the University of California at Berkely. He was employed by the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refinery Company.

He enlisted in San Francisco, California on 13 July 1942. He was selected for the Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.) and studied at Stanford University and the University of Arizona. When the program was discontinued he was sent to Camp Adair. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Montana Birth Records, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Bevil Cohn