Colonel Harvey Berger
Col. Harvey Berger died in action over Germany on Tuesday April 3,1945, he had been on a flight carrying paratroops from England to the German front.
Colonel Berger, one of two highest-ranking officers from Halstead, graduated from the Halstead high school in 1924, and from the College of Emporia in 1929, he would have been 40 years of age in October.
Harvey had been in some branch of air transport work almost ever since his graduation from college. He was a United airlines pilot, and a reserve office in the Air Corps, at the time he went into active duty in March 1942 He went overseas on May 15 1942 and saw much action over India, Africa and in the European theater of operations, his last mission was one in which he carried paratroops over Germany.
Colonel Berger is survived by his wife, two sons, one brother, eight sisters.
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-280828
Entered the Service from: Colorado
Headquarters, 316th Troop Carrier Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, French Croix De Guerre with Palm
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Clara Belle Berger (Wife)
8150 Magnolia Avenue
Arlington, California
Col. Harvey Berger died in action over Germany on Tuesday April 3,1945, he had been on a flight carrying paratroops from England to the German front.
Colonel Berger, one of two highest-ranking officers from Halstead, graduated from the Halstead high school in 1924, and from the College of Emporia in 1929, he would have been 40 years of age in October.
Harvey had been in some branch of air transport work almost ever since his graduation from college. He was a United airlines pilot, and a reserve office in the Air Corps, at the time he went into active duty in March 1942 He went overseas on May 15 1942 and saw much action over India, Africa and in the European theater of operations, his last mission was one in which he carried paratroops over Germany.
Colonel Berger is survived by his wife, two sons, one brother, eight sisters.
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-280828
Entered the Service from: Colorado
Headquarters, 316th Troop Carrier Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, French Croix De Guerre with Palm
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Clara Belle Berger (Wife)
8150 Magnolia Avenue
Arlington, California
Colonel Harvey Berger
Col. Harvey Berger died in action over Germany on Tuesday April 3,1945, he had been on a flight carrying paratroops from England to the German front.
Colonel Berger, one of two highest-ranking officers from Halstead, graduated from the Halstead high school in 1924, and from the College of Emporia in 1929, he would have been 40 years of age in October.
Harvey had been in some branch of air transport work almost ever since his graduation from college. He was a United airlines pilot, and a reserve office in the Air Corps, at the time he went into active duty in March 1942 He went overseas on May 15 1942 and saw much action over India, Africa and in the European theater of operations, his last mission was one in which he carried paratroops over Germany.
Colonel Berger is survived by his wife, two sons, one brother, eight sisters.
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-280828
Entered the Service from: Colorado
Headquarters, 316th Troop Carrier Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, French Croix De Guerre with Palm
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Clara Belle Berger (Wife)
8150 Magnolia Avenue
Arlington, California
Col. Harvey Berger died in action over Germany on Tuesday April 3,1945, he had been on a flight carrying paratroops from England to the German front.
Colonel Berger, one of two highest-ranking officers from Halstead, graduated from the Halstead high school in 1924, and from the College of Emporia in 1929, he would have been 40 years of age in October.
Harvey had been in some branch of air transport work almost ever since his graduation from college. He was a United airlines pilot, and a reserve office in the Air Corps, at the time he went into active duty in March 1942 He went overseas on May 15 1942 and saw much action over India, Africa and in the European theater of operations, his last mission was one in which he carried paratroops over Germany.
Colonel Berger is survived by his wife, two sons, one brother, eight sisters.
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-280828
Entered the Service from: Colorado
Headquarters, 316th Troop Carrier Group
Awards: Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, French Croix De Guerre with Palm
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Clara Belle Berger (Wife)
8150 Magnolia Avenue
Arlington, California
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