John T. Moland

Private John Theodore Moland grave marker photo

World War II
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Fallen

County:
Cass

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private

Regiment / Group / Brigade:
22nd Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:
4th Infantry Division
Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968

Major Battle/Theatre:
European African Middle Eastern Theater

Circumstances:

Killed in action in Prum, Germany

Biography:

John Theodore Moland was born in Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota on November 11, 1914, to Carl A and Tera Audelid Moland. He later became a resident of Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota and entered the United States Army at Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 24, 1944. Private Moland served in the European African Middle Eastern Theater and was killed in action on February 14, 1945, in Prum, Germany and he is buried at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota.

John married Murtle Clarice (Horton) Brown Degidio on January 29, 1944, in Minnesota. He was the stepfather to Clarence Milton Moland.

Source: Ancestry/Find a Grave