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Tec5 Gordon Harvey Vettling Veteran

Birth: 20 May 1916
Pine County, Minnesota, USA
Death: 24 Mar 1943 (aged 26)
Tunisia
Burial: North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial

Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia Add to Map
Plot: Block C Row 17 Grave 4
Memorial ID: 56250997 View Source

U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #37045905
Entered the Service from: Iowa
60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
Awards: Purple Heart

Gordon H. Vettling is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Hancock County, Iowa.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as R.F.D. #4, Forest City, Hancock County, Iowa. Contact person listed as Mr. Charles A. Vettling (Father) of R.F.D., Brook Park, Pine County, Minnesota. Place of birth listed as Pine County, Minnesota. Employed by Mr. Wayne F. Jones of R.F.D. #4, Forest City, Hancock County, Iowa as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

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:

Mr. Charles Vettling
Brook Park, Minnesota

***I would like to thank Teresa Dicke Jacobson Find A Grave ID 49397084 for updating the birth/death location and middle name on this memorial in addition to linking his parents to it***

U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #37045905
Entered the Service from: Iowa
60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
Awards: Purple Heart

Gordon H. Vettling is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Hancock County, Iowa.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as R.F.D. #4, Forest City, Hancock County, Iowa. Contact person listed as Mr. Charles A. Vettling (Father) of R.F.D., Brook Park, Pine County, Minnesota. Place of birth listed as Pine County, Minnesota. Employed by Mr. Wayne F. Jones of R.F.D. #4, Forest City, Hancock County, Iowa as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

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:

Mr. Charles Vettling
Brook Park, Minnesota

***I would like to thank Teresa Dicke Jacobson Find A Grave ID 49397084 for updating the birth/death location and middle name on this memorial in addition to linking his parents to it***

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Maintained by: ShaneO
Originally Created by: War Graves
Added: Aug 6, 2010
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56250997/gordon_harvey-vettling: accessed ), memorial page for Tec5 Gordon Harvey Vettling (20 May 1916–24 Mar 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56250997, citing North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia; Maintained by ShaneO (contributor 47009366).

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