Edwin F. Willert
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 37045356
168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 15-Apr-45
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
He was taken prisoner in Tunesia, North-Africa on 17 February 1943 and stayed in POW Camp Stalag III-B in Furstenberg. This camp was evacuated in February 1945 and the prisoners were sent to a school in Brandenburg that was used as the POW hospital. The building was bombed by the Americans, killing Pfc Willert along with 18 Americans and about 100 Allied prisoners who were all killed during the same bombing raid.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Wyandotte County, Kansas...Killed In Action.
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 37045356
168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 15-Apr-45
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
He was taken prisoner in Tunesia, North-Africa on 17 February 1943 and stayed in POW Camp Stalag III-B in Furstenberg. This camp was evacuated in February 1945 and the prisoners were sent to a school in Brandenburg that was used as the POW hospital. The building was bombed by the Americans, killing Pfc Willert along with 18 Americans and about 100 Allied prisoners who were all killed during the same bombing raid.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Wyandotte County, Kansas...Killed In Action.
Edwin F. Willert
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 37045356
168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 15-Apr-45
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
He was taken prisoner in Tunesia, North-Africa on 17 February 1943 and stayed in POW Camp Stalag III-B in Furstenberg. This camp was evacuated in February 1945 and the prisoners were sent to a school in Brandenburg that was used as the POW hospital. The building was bombed by the Americans, killing Pfc Willert along with 18 Americans and about 100 Allied prisoners who were all killed during the same bombing raid.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Wyandotte County, Kansas...Killed In Action.
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Service # 37045356
168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 15-Apr-45
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery
Margraten, Netherlands
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
He was taken prisoner in Tunesia, North-Africa on 17 February 1943 and stayed in POW Camp Stalag III-B in Furstenberg. This camp was evacuated in February 1945 and the prisoners were sent to a school in Brandenburg that was used as the POW hospital. The building was bombed by the Americans, killing Pfc Willert along with 18 Americans and about 100 Allied prisoners who were all killed during the same bombing raid.
NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Wyandotte County, Kansas...Killed In Action.
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