ROBERT FORSBERG DIED ON SAIPAN
Mrs. Albert Wilson just received word that her son, Robert Forsberg, Phm. M. 2/c, who was killed in the Pacific theater of war June 16, 1944, met death on Saipan. Forsberg was in the Marines and had been overseas but a short time when he was killed. Since she received word from the War Department last August of her son’s death, this is the only information she has received.
Source: Hawarden Independent, Thursday, May 3, 1945
Robert Lawrence Forsberg was born Apr. 22, 1923 to Martin Adolph and Agnes Gertrude Schuster Forsberg. He died June 16, 1944 and is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing, Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii. He has a cenotaph in Saint Galls Cemetery, Tintah, MN. Petty Officer Forsberg served with the U.S. Navy and was Lost at Sea. He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
