PFC Charles Joseph Bierbrodt
Born: 11 November 1917 – Crowburg, Kansas
Parents: Joseph Bierbrodt & Joyce Rusell-Bierbrodt
Siblings: 1 brother, 1 sister
Hometown:
– 13 10 North Eighteenth Avenue – Melrose Park, Illinois
Education:
– Melrose Park Schools
– Proviso Township High School
Graduating Class: 1935 – left school early
Occupation:
– florist – Amling’s Flowers
Residence: 1018 North Twelfth Avenue – Melrose Park, Illinois
Selective Service Registration: 16 October 1940
Contact Person: Joyce Bierbrodt – mother
– mother moved to Joplin, Missouri
Inducted:
– April 1941 – Chicago, Illinois
– U. S. Army
– Serial Number: 36027176
Training:
– Unknown
Unit: 132nd Infantry Regiment, Americal Division
Engagements:
– New Caledonia – 6 March 1942
– Battle of Guadalcanal – 8 December 1942
– attacked Mount Austen – 17 December 1942
– engaged in very heavy combat at the Gifu Strongpoint – 24 December 1942 – 9 January 1943
Killed in Action:
– 3 January 1943 – machine gun fire – Guadalcanal
Buried:
– Guadalcanal Cemetery – Solomon Islands
Reburied:
– 28 February 1949
– National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific- Honolulu, Hawaii
– Plot: N Row: O Grave: 533
Medals:
– Bronze Star, Purple Heart
