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Personal info

Full name
ANDERSON, Lee Erling
Date of birth
15 February 1924
Age
22
Place of birth
Billings County, North Dakota
Hometown
Medora, Billings County, North Dakota

Military service

Service number
37586615
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
8 March 1946
Place of death
Leipzig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Richard Anderson (father)
Gerda A. (Larson) Anderson (mother)
Clarice Anderson (sister)
Richard A. Anderson (brother)
Joan E. Anderson (sister)
Margaret M. Anderson (sister)

More information

Pvt Anderson was taken prisoner in the vicinity of Schönberg, Belgium on 21 December 1944.

He was held prisoner in Stalag IV-B and according to a German autopsy report he died in the Reserve Hospital V in Leipzig of peritonitis on 21 March 1945.

His official date of dead was set on 8 March 1946.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – World War II Prisoners of War Data File, IDPF

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The CUB of the Golden Lion, February 1947