From Ancestry.com: Sergeant Carl Behle was born September 11, 1907, and was killed in action in France August 27, 1944. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Behle of Route No. 3, Columbus, Platte County. His father, Louis Behle, died in September, 1943, the month that Carl went overseas. He had four brothers and three sisters, namely: Fred, Wilbert, also sergeant during the war, Homer and Walter Behle, Mrs. Harry Heins, Mary and Nettie Behle. Carl attended the Immanuel Lutheran Parochial School in Columbus. After finishing his grammar school work there, he enrolled at the Grand Island Business College for a one-year business course, at the completion of which he became associated with his father and brothers in farming on the Behle farm three miles north of Columbus. He remained there until he was inducted into the army on February 25, 1941. During his training, Sergeant Behle was stationed at Camp Roberts, California; Camp Polk, Louisiana; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Camp Pickett, Virginia; Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania; and received his desert training at Rice, California. In September, 1943, he was sent to England. He participated in the invasion of France, serving as a tank commander in the armored division. He was killed in action in France on August 27, 1944, and was buried overseas. A memorial service was held for Sergeant Carl Behle at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Columbus, Nebraska, on Sunday, November 26, 1944, at 10 :30 a.m., with Reverend A. H. Guettler officiating.