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Dwayne Bergstrom
Private First Class
United States Army
20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division
Service Number 35162834
Mentone – Kosciusko County – Indiana
DOD – October 2, 1945
He is buried in the Manila American Cemetery
Plot D Row 4 Grave 111
Purple Heart
The News Sentinel
Friday, April 27, 1945
AKRON MAN KILLED IN ACTION ON LUZON APR. 2
Mrs. Lois Bergstrom of Mentone received a telegram from the War department Tuesday
notifying her that her husband, Pfc. Dewayne Bergstrom had been killed in action on Luzon
April 2. Pfc. Bergstrom, 26, had been in the service four years and served overseas for 18
months. He had served in New Guinea, the Hawaiian Islands, and on Luzon in the
Philippines. He was a member of the 20th Infantry. Before entering the service he was
employed at the foundry in Warsaw. Bergstrom moved to Akron in 1937 from Belleville,
Kans., where he received his schooling. Besides his wife he is survived by a
three-year-old daughter, Dixie Lee; his father, Walter Bergstrom of Akron, and a brother,
Ralph, of Port Noches, Texas. His mother, Mrs. Grace Bergstrom, preceded him in death
several years ago.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, April 27, 1945]