Date of birth:

(Brewster/Nebraska, United States)

Date of death:

April 13th, 1945 (near Schkopau/Saxony, Germany)

Nationality:

American

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Captain

Unit:

Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division "Indianhead", U.S. Army

For action performed on 13 April 1945, near Dörstewitz/Saxony, Germany. Captain Van Neste was at this action mortally wounded by an enemy mortar shell.

Posthumously awarded. Citation unavailable.

• - Autor: U.S. Army, The combat history of the Second Infantry Division in World War II, The Battery Press, Nashville, USA, 2001
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