Men in Service
Melvin L. Hagberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hagberg, 3509 Jackson Street: Irvin D. Levine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Levine, 1054 25th Street; Ralph Wayne Hillman, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hillman, 2601 Virginia Street; Richard A. Lechner, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lechner, 2422 Douglas Street and Perry L. Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry L. Collins, 2541 S Coral Street, have reported at Washington University, St. Louis, for a course of army air force instruction.
Source: Sioux City Journal, April 1, 1943
IN UNIFORM.
Lieut. Melvin L. Hagberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hagberg, 3509 Jackson Street, has been transferred from LaJunta, Colorado to the reclassification center, Columbia, South Carolina.
Source: Sioux City Journal, July 21, 1944
Melvin Lee Hagberg was born Aug. 18, 1924 to Carl Alfred and Helen Ora Christopher Hagberg. He died July 23, 2011 and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Melvin served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Source: ancestry.com
