Johnson County

 
Sgt. Elwood Opstad

 

 

 

Miss Jean Opstad and her brother, Sgt. Elwood Opstad, who were shown in an NEA Telephoto reprinted in Friday's Courier holding a reunion somewhere in Italy, are the niece and nephew of Mrs. C. E. Haldum, 824 West Second street. The brother and sister whose home is in Iowa City, Ia., met while Sergeant Opstad was being treated for wounds received while flying with a B-17 bomber group and his sister was serving as a Red Cross staff assistant in the hospital he was taken to.

Source: The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA - December 15, 1944 (photo included)

Miss Jean Opstad and her brother, Sgt. Elwood Opstad, who were shown in an NEA Telephoto reprinted in Friday's Courier holding a reunion somewhere in Italy, are the niece and nephew of Mrs. C. E. Haldum, 824 West Second street. The brother and sister whose home is in Iowa City, Ia., met while Sergeant Opstad was being treated for wounds received while flying with a B-17 bomber group and his sister was serving as a Red Cross staff assistant in the hospital he was taken to.

Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - December 17, 1944