Log Sigbjorn Antansen

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Sigbjorn Antansen Log is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

ISOB Sigbjorn Log -99th Infantry Battalion

Name:

Sigbjorn Antansen Log

Rank:

Private First Class

Serial Number:

32497879

Unit:

99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) (Norwegian)

Date of Death:

1945-01-09

State:

New York (Norway)

Cemetery:

Ana Sira Church Cemetery, Ana-Sira, Sokndal kommune, Rogaland fylke, Norway

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Purple Heart

Comments:

Sigbjorn A. Log was born on June 8, 1908 in
Sokndal community in Norway. He immigrated to the US in 1929 and worked as a brickyard worker in Brooklyn, New York.

He volunteered to serve in the US Army in 1942 and as a Norwegian speaker, was assigned to Company B of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) Norway). He arrived in England in 1943. Landed in France in June 1944. Fell 9 January 1945 on the border between Belgium and Germany during the "Battle of the Bulge". Originally buried in Belgium and re-interred in his native Norway in 1949.