Name:
Einar Herder Nelson
Rank:
Sergeant
Serial Number:
36360047
Unit:
15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1944-05-30
State:
Illinois (Sweden)
Cemetery:
Sallstorp, Kyrkogard, Sweden
Plot:
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Sergeant Einar H. Nelson (36360047), of the 15th Infantry Regiment , 3rd Infantry “Rock of the Marne” Victory” Division who was KIA in Italy on May 30, 1944 during Operation Diadem, the breakout of Anzio.
Eirnar Herder Nelson was born of June 3, 1910 in, Sweden. He immigrated to the United States and became a citizen in 1941. He lived in Illinois and enlisted in the US Army in 1942. After his death is was temporarily interned until his bodied was returned to Sallstorp, Kyrkogard in Sweden in 1949.
He was one of over 4,200 US soldiers born in Sweden who served in the US military from 1941-45.