First Lieutenant Glenda Serena Spelhaug was born on Dec 29th, 1913 in North Dakota. Her parents are Serveria Spelhaug and Matilda Koppans . Serveria was born on Apr 8th, 1883 in Minnesota and died on Jul 1965 in North Dakota. His occupation was as a farmer. Matilda was born on Nov 24th, 1888 in Minnesota and died on Jun 28th, 1977 in North Dakota. Her occupation was a stay-at-home mom. Glenda’s siblings are Clarice, Norman, Sybil, Sidney, and Miner Spelhaug.

Glena served in the army with the unit 33rd Field Hospital. Her service number is N-736140. Glena died on Feb 10th, 1944 in Italy. Her cause of death was that she was one of two nurses killed at the Anzio beachhead, the German bombs hit the hospital which set the tent on fire. Glena was buried in Sicily and Rome, Italy cemetery and his last known status was buried. Her grave number is I 12 8. Glena was awarded the purple heart, silver star, army presidential, World War 2 victory, army good conduct, nurse corps, American campaign, and European American campaign medal.

Sources
ancestry.com
findagrave.com
1930 census
honorstates.org

Written by Sierra Paul
This story is part of the Stories Behind the Stars project( see www.storiesbehindthestars.org). This is a national effort of volunteers to write the stories of all 400,000+ of the US WW2 fallen here on Fold3. Can you help write these stories? Related to this, there will be a smartphone app that will allow people to visit any war memorial or cemetery, scan the fallen’s name and read his/her story.

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