Name and Rank, First Lieutenant Harold Lief Saastad.
Unit/Placed in, Marine Observation Squadron-3 (VMO-3), United States Marine Corps.
Harold was born approx. in 1918 in North Dakota.
Father, Ole Saastad.
Mother, Berte (Karlsdatter) Saastad.
Sisters, Alice, Olga and Norma Saastad.
Brothers, Arthur, Norman and Walter Saastad.
Wife, Georgia L. (Berger) Saastad.
Harold entered the service from North Carolina with service number # 0-029629.
Harold L. Saalstad was a Lieutenant/Pilot in the Marine Corps.
Harold was KIA during an observation run, nothing on the radio when he not arrived on the destination on April 19, 1945, and he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal Marine Corps, Expeditionary Medal Marine Corps, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Harold is buried at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.
Courts of the Missing.
Thanks to http://hma1369.tripod.com/vmo3.html
Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
