Collection Spotlight

First Lieutenant Jeanette Hennigan
Eldred, PA.
U.S. Army Air Force Nurse Corps

Entered service on July 15, 1943.
Served at Patterson Field, OH, Daniel Field, GA
and Robins Field, GA.
Discharged on January 15, 1946.
Sergeant Robert Graham
Bradford, PA
U.S. Marine Corps

World War II and Korea Veteran
HQ, Fleet Marine Forces, Pacific

Machinists Mate 1/c Guy E. Moses
Eldred, PA
USS DIXIE (AD-14)

Entered service on June 18, 1940.
Served 8 months at Pearl Harbor prior to December 7, 1941 attack. Returned to Pearl in March '42 and saw action in Solomons and Leyte Gulf.
Discharged June 17, 1946.

Boatswains Mate 2/c C. Louis Herrmann
Eldred, Pa

1913 - 1996

Entered service on September 11, 1942.
Served on SS Joseph Hewes, USS LST 1000
and USS LST 391.
Discharged November 24, 1945.
Coxswain 3/c George E. Herrmann
Eldred, PA
134th Naval Construction Battalion, Seabees

1917 - 1987
Entered service on November 21, 1944.
Engagements: Okinawa
Discharged on February 16, 1946.

Sergeant Leonard A. Oszustowicz
Eldred, PA
U.S. Army

1917 - 1995

Lenny 'O' was raised in West Virginia and served in Burma and India during World War II.
He was a trained Corpsman and earned 2 Bronze Stars during his service and came to Eldred in 1946.
Carpenters Mate 2/c Ralph J. Ours
Eldred, PA
115th Construction Battalion, Seabees

1926 - 2001

Entered service on May 15, 1944.
Ralph was only a sophmore in high school when he
joined to serve along with his older brothers
Claude, Ernest and Edward.
Engagements: New Guinea, Philippines
Private First Class Arnold S. McKendrick
Eldred, PA

Died of Wounds in Holland:
November 25, 1944

Buried: Plot C, Row 19, Grave 7
American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands

Entered service on May 13, 1943.
Overseas to France on November 11, 1944.
Sergeant John J. Sherman
Duke Center, Pa


Killed in Action over Leipzig, Germany
November 30, 1944
16th Mission
545th Bomber Squadron, 384th Bomber Group, Heavy
8th Army Air Force



Buried: Section F, Site 4062
Woodlawn National Cemetery
Elmira, NY
Carpenters Mate 2/c Harold W. Wiedemann
Eldred, PA
USS LST 218

1925 - 2005

Entered service in 1943 and discharged in 1946.
Engagements: Saipan, Tinian and Tarawa
First Lieutenant Herman Marrone
Eldred, PA


Pilot, 716th BSq, 449th BGp, 47th Wing,
15th Air Force.

Flew 33 Missions, shot down on 3rd mission
while piloting B-24 "Silver Babe" (above)
MIA for 1 month with crew and escaped German
capture, returning back to American lines in Italy.
Ben Benson
Crosby, PA

USS Wasatch

Engagements: Morotai, Luzon, Leyte Gulf, Mindanao

Bomber Crew Helmet,
Summer, Flying (AN-H-15)

Richard E. Forness
Salamanca, NY


Tailgunner, B-17
96th Bomb Group
First Sergeant John Bechelli
Eldred, PA

1917 - 1986

813th Tank Destroyer Battalion
79th Infantry Division

Colonel Allen H. Foreman
Kane, PA

1910 - 2004

Enlisted in Army 1930.
West Point Class of 1935.

Philippine service 1936 - 1940.

Tank Destroyer Forces, First Army 1942 - 1945
Engagements: North Africa, Italy, France, Germany

Pentagon, Inspector General Service
Assistant Chief of Staff, First Army

Retired from U.S. Army 1965

English Instructor, Valley Forge Military Academy
1966 - 1975

 

 

Staff Sergeant Wolf Dieter Hauser
Bradford, PA

1927 - 2007

Dieter was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the son of Dr. Ernst August Hauser. Escaping the political climate of Nazi Germany, the Hauser's settled in Massachusetts and Dieter joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1944, serving in the South Pacific. Honorably discharged in 1946, he remained in the Marine Corps Reserves until 1960.

Dieter's father Ernst was born in Vienna in 1896 and served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I with the Field Artillery and later as an officer in the Mountain Troops (Gebirgsjägern).

Corporal Russell Miller
Rixford, PA



444th Bomb Group
20th Air Force
Tinian Island