This is my 4th cousin once removed, Private First Class Ralph Victor Freburg, born Sept. 27, 1915 in Bertrand Co., Nebraska. Ralph arrived in France with the 3rd Armored Division on June 24, 1944, and was killed in action on Aug. 17, 1944 in Ranes, Basse-Normandie, France. His family buried him in the Prairie Home Cemetery in Holdrege, Phelps Co., Nebraska. When he signed his draft card in 1940 he had been 6’2″, weighing 185 pounds.
Ralph’s grandfather Anders Victor Andersson had immigrated to Illinois in 1877. He was born in Kristdala, Sweden, in 1850 and died in Nebraska in 1918.