On This Day | A Veterans Day Salute

It was May 29 of this year that First Lieut. Elmer Blomquist of Battleview died at the head of his men charging a Jap position thru the chill fog on Attu island in the North Pacific. On Thursday, Armistice Day, his mother, Mrs. Robert Blomquist, of Battleview, will receive at a ceremonial in Minot, the Silver Star awarded her heroic son after death.

1943-11-11 | Ward County Independent