Captain William Julius Amaan
Enlistment Army Service No. (ASN): 20817327
Officer Service No: 01166658
Captain William Julius Amaan was a son to Laura Helen Lee and Max Walter Amann Sr. He lost his life defending his country during World War Two.
Obituary:
CAPT. WILLIAM J. AMANN, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Amann Sr. of 837 Waverly Ave., and Poteet, has been reported killed in action in Belgium Jan. 1, his parents and his widow, Mrs. Mardell Amann, of Kingsville, have been notified. Amann, who was listed as missing in action Dec. 24, was a graduate of the Poteet High School and studied engineering at A. & I. College, Kingsville. A member of the National Guard, he entered active service in November, 1940, and had been overseas with a field artillery unit since February, 1944. Surviving Amann, besides his parents and widow, are two children and two brothers, Max W. Amann Jr. of Utopia, and Willard Lee Amann, a student at A. & I. College.
William Julius Amann
William joined the National Guard in 1937 in order to help pay for his college education. He had a room at the Armory where he was caretaker while going to Texas A&I. The National Guard was called up after Pearl Harbor. He chose to go to Officer Candidate School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and received his commission July 21, 1942. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in November 1942. He was assigned first to the 333rd and in 1943 to the 969th Field Artillery Battalion. Due to the Army's policies on segregation during WWII, white officers were attached to Negro units and the 333rd and 969th were two of those. The 969th trained at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, where "Bill" (as he was known in the Army) became the Executive Officer for Battery B. The 969th entered foreign service on March 1, 1944, and fought at Normandy, in France and at the Siegfried line. The unit was given the Distinguished Unit Citation for its stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. He was promoted to Captain and Commander of Battery A September 1944. According to men who were with Bill on December 24, 1944, he was killed in a German bombing raid, when a JU88, flying around 3000 feet, dropped a bomb directly on the farmhouse where Bill and Ray Chapple were housed. He was first considered missing in action and was declared "Killed in Action" on January 1, 1945
Enlistment Army Service No. (ASN): 20817327
Officer Service No: 01166658
Captain William Julius Amaan was a son to Laura Helen Lee and Max Walter Amann Sr. He lost his life defending his country during World War Two.
Obituary:
CAPT. WILLIAM J. AMANN, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Amann Sr. of 837 Waverly Ave., and Poteet, has been reported killed in action in Belgium Jan. 1, his parents and his widow, Mrs. Mardell Amann, of Kingsville, have been notified. Amann, who was listed as missing in action Dec. 24, was a graduate of the Poteet High School and studied engineering at A. & I. College, Kingsville. A member of the National Guard, he entered active service in November, 1940, and had been overseas with a field artillery unit since February, 1944. Surviving Amann, besides his parents and widow, are two children and two brothers, Max W. Amann Jr. of Utopia, and Willard Lee Amann, a student at A. & I. College.
William Julius Amann
William joined the National Guard in 1937 in order to help pay for his college education. He had a room at the Armory where he was caretaker while going to Texas A&I. The National Guard was called up after Pearl Harbor. He chose to go to Officer Candidate School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and received his commission July 21, 1942. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in November 1942. He was assigned first to the 333rd and in 1943 to the 969th Field Artillery Battalion. Due to the Army's policies on segregation during WWII, white officers were attached to Negro units and the 333rd and 969th were two of those. The 969th trained at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, where "Bill" (as he was known in the Army) became the Executive Officer for Battery B. The 969th entered foreign service on March 1, 1944, and fought at Normandy, in France and at the Siegfried line. The unit was given the Distinguished Unit Citation for its stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. He was promoted to Captain and Commander of Battery A September 1944. According to men who were with Bill on December 24, 1944, he was killed in a German bombing raid, when a JU88, flying around 3000 feet, dropped a bomb directly on the farmhouse where Bill and Ray Chapple were housed. He was first considered missing in action and was declared "Killed in Action" on January 1, 1945
Captain William Julius Amaan
Enlistment Army Service No. (ASN): 20817327
Officer Service No: 01166658
Captain William Julius Amaan was a son to Laura Helen Lee and Max Walter Amann Sr. He lost his life defending his country during World War Two.
Obituary:
CAPT. WILLIAM J. AMANN, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Amann Sr. of 837 Waverly Ave., and Poteet, has been reported killed in action in Belgium Jan. 1, his parents and his widow, Mrs. Mardell Amann, of Kingsville, have been notified. Amann, who was listed as missing in action Dec. 24, was a graduate of the Poteet High School and studied engineering at A. & I. College, Kingsville. A member of the National Guard, he entered active service in November, 1940, and had been overseas with a field artillery unit since February, 1944. Surviving Amann, besides his parents and widow, are two children and two brothers, Max W. Amann Jr. of Utopia, and Willard Lee Amann, a student at A. & I. College.
William Julius Amann
William joined the National Guard in 1937 in order to help pay for his college education. He had a room at the Armory where he was caretaker while going to Texas A&I. The National Guard was called up after Pearl Harbor. He chose to go to Officer Candidate School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and received his commission July 21, 1942. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in November 1942. He was assigned first to the 333rd and in 1943 to the 969th Field Artillery Battalion. Due to the Army's policies on segregation during WWII, white officers were attached to Negro units and the 333rd and 969th were two of those. The 969th trained at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, where "Bill" (as he was known in the Army) became the Executive Officer for Battery B. The 969th entered foreign service on March 1, 1944, and fought at Normandy, in France and at the Siegfried line. The unit was given the Distinguished Unit Citation for its stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. He was promoted to Captain and Commander of Battery A September 1944. According to men who were with Bill on December 24, 1944, he was killed in a German bombing raid, when a JU88, flying around 3000 feet, dropped a bomb directly on the farmhouse where Bill and Ray Chapple were housed. He was first considered missing in action and was declared "Killed in Action" on January 1, 1945
Enlistment Army Service No. (ASN): 20817327
Officer Service No: 01166658
Captain William Julius Amaan was a son to Laura Helen Lee and Max Walter Amann Sr. He lost his life defending his country during World War Two.
Obituary:
CAPT. WILLIAM J. AMANN, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Amann Sr. of 837 Waverly Ave., and Poteet, has been reported killed in action in Belgium Jan. 1, his parents and his widow, Mrs. Mardell Amann, of Kingsville, have been notified. Amann, who was listed as missing in action Dec. 24, was a graduate of the Poteet High School and studied engineering at A. & I. College, Kingsville. A member of the National Guard, he entered active service in November, 1940, and had been overseas with a field artillery unit since February, 1944. Surviving Amann, besides his parents and widow, are two children and two brothers, Max W. Amann Jr. of Utopia, and Willard Lee Amann, a student at A. & I. College.
William Julius Amann
William joined the National Guard in 1937 in order to help pay for his college education. He had a room at the Armory where he was caretaker while going to Texas A&I. The National Guard was called up after Pearl Harbor. He chose to go to Officer Candidate School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma and received his commission July 21, 1942. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in November 1942. He was assigned first to the 333rd and in 1943 to the 969th Field Artillery Battalion. Due to the Army's policies on segregation during WWII, white officers were attached to Negro units and the 333rd and 969th were two of those. The 969th trained at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, where "Bill" (as he was known in the Army) became the Executive Officer for Battery B. The 969th entered foreign service on March 1, 1944, and fought at Normandy, in France and at the Siegfried line. The unit was given the Distinguished Unit Citation for its stand at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. He was promoted to Captain and Commander of Battery A September 1944. According to men who were with Bill on December 24, 1944, he was killed in a German bombing raid, when a JU88, flying around 3000 feet, dropped a bomb directly on the farmhouse where Bill and Ray Chapple were housed. He was first considered missing in action and was declared "Killed in Action" on January 1, 1945
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