World War II Veterans
Each week during World War II, the editor of the local newspaper featured an area
person who was in the armed service. Several local 'scrapbookers' saved these articles.
These clippings are now in the WHCPA Archives.
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| Name | Photo Link | Service | Branch | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahlstrom, Andrew | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Anderson, Donald V | photo | Army | Infantry | 40 |
| Anderson, Johanna | photo | Army | Nurse | 43 |
| Barrett, Douglas | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Bartholow, Harold E | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Batson, John | photo | National Guard | Artillery | 40 |
| Beer, Hilton | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Benson, Robert G | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Berg, Ronald J | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Beusekom, Kenneth | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Bittner, Fred N | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Board, Charles | photo | Army | SignalCorps | 42 |
| Bolduc, David | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Braden, Phil | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Brandon, Gerald | photo | Army | AirCorps | 41 |
| Brandon, Theodore | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Buckley, Robert | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Butterfield, Loren | photo | Coast Guard | - | 45 |
| Carlson, Fendall | photo | National Guard | Artillery | 40 |
| Carlson, Ford G | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Carmody, James | photo | Coast Guard | - | - |
| Cole, Donald M | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Cox, Ardelle | photo | Army | Nurse | 45 |
| Coyne, Kenneth | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Crahan, Jack B | photo | Navy | AirCorps | 42 |
| Creelman, Gordon | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Cruikshank, Frank | photo | Marines | - | 44 |
| Cruikshank, Robert | photo | Army | Ordnance | 44 |
| Curtis, John E | photo | Marines | - | - |
| Daugherty, Robert | photo | Merchant Marines | - | 43 |
| Deziel, George | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 41 |
| Dickey, Robert J | photo | Navy | AirCorps | 42 |
| Ditter, Anthony J | photo | Navy | AirCorps | 43 |
| Ditter, Wilrose | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | - |
| Drysdale, Keith | photo | Army | AirCorps | 44 |
| Dumas, Anita | photo | Army | Nurse | 43 |
| Dumas, Robert | photo | Marines | - | 43 |
| Dupont, Arnold | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | - |
| DuPrey, Bud | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Duprey, John | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Eisinger, Clarence | photo | Army | Infantry | 44 |
| Eisinger, Donald | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 42 |
| Eisinger, Kermit | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 42 |
| Elliot, Robert | photo | National Guard | - | 40 |
| Ellis, Mike | photo | Army | - | 44 |
| Elsen, Nick | photo | Army | Transport | 44 |
| Etzel, Lawrence | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Etzel, Leonard | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Favorite, Dominick | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Ferrell, Donald | photo | Army | Airborne | 42 |
| Finazzo,Samuel | photo | Army | Artillery | 42 |
| Ford, Richard F | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Forde, Norman | photo | Army | Airborne | - |
| Forde, Norman | photo | Army | Infantry | 40 |
| Fortin, Clifford | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Fortin, Philip P | photo | Army | Engineering | 45 |
| Frick, Harold | photo | Army | Infantry | 41 |
| Frick, Howard | photo | Army | Artillery | 43 |
| Frick, Robert | photo | Army | Artillery | 42 |
| Frost, David | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 43 |
| Frost, Marvin | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Gabbert, Kenneth | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Gerow, John Sidney | photo | RAF | - | 40 |
| Getten, Jean | photo | Army | Infantry | 41 |
| Getten, Lynes | photo | Army | Infantry | - |
| Gillette, Chester | photo | Marines | - | 42 |
| Godfrey, Leroy | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Gray, Harold W | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Grey, Darrell | photo | Army | SignalCorps | - |
| Hallson, Frank | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Hansen, Harold | photo | Army | AirCorps | 44 |
| Hartman, Alexander | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Heinzen, James | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Henderson, Rodger | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Hodge, Charles | photo | Army | Infantry | 43 |
| Holst, Virgil M | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Holst, Roy | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Howe, John | photo | Marines | - | 42 |
| Hughes, Dorian | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Hughes, John W | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Hughes, L J | photo | Army | Infantry | - |
| Hughes, Lee | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Hughes, Robert | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Hursh, Bruce | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Hursh, Neil | photo | Army | AirCorps | 45 |
| Ice Brothers Of Wayzata | photo | Various | - | - |
| Ice, Allen | photo | Army | Tank | 42 |
| Ice, Charles P | photo | Army | Engineering | - |
| Ice, Edgar | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Ice, John J | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Ice, William | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Jarlais, Elsworth | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Jensen, Earl | photo | Army | AirCorps | 41 |
| Johnson, Frank | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Johnson, Kenneth | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Johnson, ODale | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Johnston, Neva | photo | Navy | Waves | 42 |
| Jolicoeur, Jerome F | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Kauth, Joseph | photo | Army | Armoured | - |
| Keesling, Edward | photo | Army | Unknown | 42 |
| Kelley, Beth | photo | Army | WAC | 43 |
| Kelley, Bruce | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Kelley, Lester | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Kelley, Lloyd H | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Kelley, William S | photo | Marines | - | 42 |
| Kemna, Ralph | photo | Coast Guard | - | 41 |
| Kertson, James | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Klaers, Donald | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Klonne, Lucille | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Kraemer, Edward | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Kreatz, Clyde | photo | Coast Guard | - | 42 |
| Kreatz, Vernon | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Kropp, Arthur | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 37 |
| Kuehn, Ralph | photo | Army | Infantry | 41 |
| Kuehn, Raymond | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| LaMere, Albert | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| LaStrange, Maurice | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Lebo, Tom | photo | Army | Artillery | - |
| Lepowsky, Brenson | photo | Marines | - | - |
| Lind, George | photo | Army | Artillery | - |
| Linden, Erling | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Little, Charles | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Locke, Frank | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Lohstreter, Arnold | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Lohstreter, Leonard | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Love, Robert | photo | Army | AirCorps | 41 |
| Lubowitz, Anthony | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Lubowitz, George | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Luby, Kenneth | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Luttio, Paul | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Lysaker, Charlotte | photo | Nurse | Nurse | - |
| MacGregor, Don | photo | Army | Artillery | - |
| Manning, Donald | photo | Marines | - | 42 |
| McEntee, Chester | photo | Army | Tank | 42 |
| Meister, Frederick | photo | Army | SignalCorps | 42 |
| Mellberg, Eailor | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Merz, Alfred | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Meyer, Frederick | photo | Army | Infantry | 45 |
| Milan, Kenny | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Milbert, Howard | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Milbert, Robert | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Miller, Alex | photo | Army | Airborne | 41 |
| Mullane, Wayne | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Munns, Edward | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Munns, James | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Murphy, Carl | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Neilson, Dean | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Neilson, Ross | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Neilson, Terry | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Neiss, Thomas | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Nilson, Bernice | photo | Army | Nurse | 41 |
| Nilson, Horace | photo | Army | Transport | 42 |
| Nygren, Wendell | photo | Army | Infantry | 41 |
| Oconnell, Raymond | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Odell, Harold | photo | Army | Infantry | 41 |
| Odell, Willard | photo | Army | SignalCorps | 42 |
| Osier, Dwayne | photo | Army | Armoured | - |
| Osier, LeRoy | photo | Army | Airborne | 45 |
| Osier, Lyle | photo | Army | Infantry | 43 |
| Osier, Vernon | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Parker, Irving | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Payton, Richard | photo | Army | Quartermaster | 42 |
| Payton, William | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Pearson, Donald | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 42 |
| Pearson, Edgar | photo | Coast Guard | - | 41 |
| Pearson, Gordon | photo | Coast Guard | - | 41 |
| Pearson, Marcel | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Perry, Alton | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Perry, Ed | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Peterson, Paul | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Peterson, Paul W | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Pettit, Stanley E | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 42 |
| Popp, Russell S | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Pouliott, Vernon | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Powell, Charles | photo | Army | Infantry | 43 |
| Propersi, Robert | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Quady, Curtis | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Quady, James | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Quady, Robert | photo | Army | SignalCorps | 45 |
| Ramsey, James C | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Raskob, Clifford | photo | Marines | - | 43 |
| Raskob, Don | photo | Navy | - | 45 |
| Raskob, Lester | photo | Marines | - | 43 |
| Rasmussen, Edward V | photo | Army | Airborne | 42 |
| Reimer, John A | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Reiser, Phillip | photo | Army | Transport | - |
| Rettinger, Pete | photo | Army | Infantry | 41 |
| Rettinger, Tommy | photo | Army | Airborne | 42 |
| Rice, Luella | photo | Army | WAC | 44 |
| Roehl, George | photo | Army | SignalCorps | - |
| Roehl, Richard | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Rosch, George R | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Rosch, Herbert | photo | Army | Armoured | - |
| Rosch, John | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Rosch, Louise | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
| Rosch, Richard G | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Roy, Ellsworth | photo | Army | Artillery | - |
| Schaber, Elmer | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 42 |
| Sandgren, Chauncey | photo | Army | Artillery | 42 |
| Scherer, Cletus | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Schmidt, Hugh | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Schommer, Joseph | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Schumann, Herman | photo | Army | Artillery | - |
| Sidnam, Hibbert | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Smith, Edward | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Smith, George | photo | Army | Infantry | 42 |
| Smith, Harry R | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Smith, Olive R | photo | Army | MedicalCorps | 43 |
| Snoke, Martin | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Sopko, Tony | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| St. John, Walter | photo | Army | Artillery | - |
| Stimler, Richard | photo | Navy | - | 45 |
| Stubbs, Frank | photo | Navy | - | 41 |
| Stubbs, Paul | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Stubbs, Philip | photo | Army | Infantry | - |
| Stuckmayer, Wayne H | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Stumpf, George | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Styner, Ross | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| Swaggert, Carl | photo | Marines | - | 42 |
| Swaggert, Harold | photo | Marines | - | 40 |
| Swanson, Sidney | photo | Army | AirCorps | 41 |
| Talbert, Walter | photo | Army | AirCorps | 41 |
| Taylor, Earl | photo | Army | Artillery | 44 |
| Thies, Burt | photo | Army | Transport | 42 |
| Thies, Elmer | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Thies, Kerney Jr | photo | Army | Infantry | 44 |
| Thompson, F Joseph | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Toomey, Donald | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Trippler, Dean | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Turnham, Tom | photo | Army | AirCorps | 43 |
| Tuttle, James | photo | Army | Infantry | 41 |
| VanBeusekom, Adrian | photo | Army | SignalCorp | 42 |
| VanEvery, Harold | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Varty, Wilson | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Vukas, Michael | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Wagner, Gervase | photo | Army | Infantry | - |
| Wakefield, Richard Jr | photo | Army | Unknown | - |
| Wallin, Donovan | photo | Army | AirCorps | 42 |
| Watts, Edward E | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Weber, G F | photo | Army | Infantry | - |
| Welch, George Allen | photo | Marines | - | 44 |
| Weltsch, Orrin O | photo | Navy | - | 43 |
| White, Clifford | photo | Navy | - | - |
| Wineman, George | photo | Army | AirCorps | - |
| Wineman, John | photo | Army | Artillery | - |
| Winnen, Harold | photo | Navy | - | 42 |
| Zinn, Charles | photo | Navy | - | 44 |
