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Personal info

Full name
VIGESAA, Le Roy Wallace
Date of birth
18 February 1926
Age
18
Place of birth
Luverne, Steele County, North Dakota
Hometown
Kensal, Stutsman County, North Dakota

Military service

Service number
37595031
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Hosingen, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 7 41

Immediate family

Members
Thomas Vigesaa (father)
Theodora (Egge) Vigesaa (mother)
Petra E. Vigesaa (sister)
Bertha Vigesaa (sister)
Ingeborg T. Vigesaa (sister)
Norman T. Vigesaa (brother)
Walter Vigesaa (brother)
Lillian M. Vigesaa (sister)
Ila M. Vigesaa (sister)
Vernon V. Vigesaa (brother)
Willard R. Vigesaa (brother)

More information

Pvt Le Roy W. Vigesaa attended high school for one year and worked on the family farm when he enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 17 May 1944.

He trained at Camp Robinson, Arkansas and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri before going overseas in December 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the leg.

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 File / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Vigesaa Family Tree, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – LuxAmCem / Dennis C. Olsen