2nd Lt. Rudolph Henry Bisterfeldt

Parents: Conrad Biesterfeldt & Dorothy Lenk-Bisterfeldt

    - mother remarried

Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers

Hometown:

    - 111 South Harlem Avenue - Forest Park, Illinois

Education:

    - St. John Lutheran School, Forest Park

    - Proviso Township High School

         Graduating Class: 1938

Occupation:

    - electrician

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army Air Corps

        - 18 October 1941 - Chicago, Illinois

- Serial Number: 36302852

Training: 

    - Orange County Army Airfield, Santa Ana, California

    - Santa Maria Army Airfield, California

    - Lemoore Naval Air Station, California

    - Luke Army Airfield, Arizona

    - Tonopah Army Airfield, Nevada

Unit:

    - 362nd Fighter Squadron, 357 Fighter Group

Died:

    - 6 April 1943 - plane crash - Tonopah, Nevada

        - Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range 

Buried:

    - Concordia Cemetery - Forest Park, Illinois