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Personal info

Full name
BRODERSEN, Alfred Herman
Date of birth
28 July 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Sonoma County, California
Hometown
Sonoma County, California

Military service

Service number
39000465
Rank
First Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
2nd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
29 November 1944
Place of death
Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 21 52

Immediate family

Members
Herman C. Brodersen (father)
Elsie M. K. (Hammermann) Brodersen (mother)
Harry C. Brodersen (brother)
Ernest P. Brodersen (brother)
Marjorie E. Brodersen (sister)
Lucille E. Brodersen (sister)
Leroy J. Brodersen (brother)
Mildred Brodersen (wife)

More information

1st Lt Alfred H. Brodersen was a machine operator before he enlisted in San Francisco, California on 21 January 1941.

He was seriously wounded in action in Germany 29 November 1944 and died as a result of the wounds in a hospital in France on the same day.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / California Birth Index / Geluardi Louvau Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr, www.newspapers.com - The Press Democrat
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