Minnesota Discovery Center

Reino Rafael Lehto, None

conflict:World War II
branch:Army
rank:Corporal
serial number:
location:Battery B of the 494th Coast Artillery Battalion in Normandy, Northern France, and Rhineland.
enlistment date:April 8, 1941
place enlisted:Ely, MN
discharge date:Sept. 20, 1945
place discharged:Camp McCoy, WI
decorations: American Defense Service Medal (1939-1941)
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1941-1946)
Good Conduct Medal (U. S. Armed Forces)
Overseas Service Bar(s)
Service Star(s)
World War II Victory Medal (1941-1946)
history:
service documents:
references:Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War Two Project (2004?), p. 171.

Personal Information

date of birth:June 16, 1921
birth place:
home town:Embarrass, MN
date of death:Sept. 20, 2005
father:
mother:
siblings:
school:None

Last update: 9/16/2015