PFC Robert Berger Magnesen
Born:29 November 1919 – Maywood, Illinois
Parents: Berger Magnesen & Harriet Bauman-Magnesen
Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother
Home:
– 812 South Sixth Avenue – Maywood, Illinois
Education:
– Emerson School
– Proviso Township High School
– Graduation Class: 1937
Occupation: Campbell Soup Company – Chicago, Illinois
Selective Service Registration: 1 July 1941
Contact Person: Berger Magnesen – father
Residence: 117 South Nineteenth Avenue – Maywood, Illinois
Inducted:
– U.S. Army
– 18 October 1941
Serial Number: 36302966
Training:
– Camp Walters, Mineral Wells, Texas
Unit: 165 Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division
Engagements:
– Battle of Makin
– Battle of Saipan – 15 June 1944
– U.S. Marines made initial landing and took heavy casualties
– 17 June 1944 – 169th was the first Army unit to land after being held in reserve
– regiment captured Aslito Airfield
– 23 June 1944 – the regiment was redeployed to clear out the “Purple Heart Ridge”
– wounded
Died of Wounds:
– 26 June 1944
Buried:
– Saipan
Reburied:
– 15 June 1948
– Chapel Hill Gardens West – Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
– Section: Garden of Devotion Grave: 32-D
Medals: Purple Heart
