PFC Glenn Wesley Nordquist
Born: 21 October 1925 – Chicago, Illinois
Parents: Clarence Nordquist & Evelyn M. Johnson-Nordquist
Siblings: 1 brother
Home: 1820 South Eleventh Avenue – Maywood, Illinois
Education:
– Garfield School
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1944
Selective Service Registration: 21 October 1943
Contact Person: Clarence A. Norquist – father
– registered during his senior year of high school
– received his high school diploma in the Army
Enlistment:
– 3 March 1944
Serial Number: 36951586
Training:
– Fort McClellan, Alabama
– Camp Edwards, Massachusetts
– Fort Benning, Georgia
– sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri as a replacement
Unit: 276th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division
– sent to Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts for shipment to Europe
– landed in France 15 December 1944
Engagements:
– Operation Northwind
– Wingren, France
– Oetingen Raids
– Forbach, France
– Saarbrucken, Germany
Died:
– 10 May 1945
– died at Gossenheim, Germany – accidentally shot
Buried:
– Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
– Section: 48 Lot: 417
