2nd Lt. Helen Bertha Anderson
Born: 24 August 1923 – Winnipeg, Canada
Parents: Otto & Martha Anderson
Siblings:2 sisters, 1 brother
Hometown:
– 1524 North Sixteenth Avenue – Melrose Park, Illinois
Education:
– Pleasant Hill School, Wheaton, Illinois
– Stevenson School – Maywood, Illinois
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1941
Occupation:
– Nurse
– Trained: Augustana Hospital
– Licensed: January 1945
– Worked: Augustana & West Lake Hospitals
Enlisted:
– U. S. Army Nursing Corps
– April 1945
Serial Number: N-795163
Units:
– 6th Service Command, U. S. Army Nursing Corps
Overseas Duty:
– 27th Station Hospital – Okinawa – August 1945
Married:
– 10 August 1945 – Berwyn E. Hildebrandt on Guam
– Husband also a Proviso graduate
– Sister-in-Law of S/Sgt. Warren Hildebrandt, B Company, 192nd Tank
Battalion
Died: 29 September 1945 – Okinawa
– plane she was on crashed upon takeoff and burst into flames
Memorial Service: 30 December 1945 – First Lutheran Church – Melrose Park
Buried:
– Original Burial Site:
– Island Cemetery, Okinawa
Reburied:
– 10 March 1949 – National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific – Honolulu, Hawaii
– Section: M Grave: 1243
