World War II
The United States of America avoided the conflict of world events until December 7, 1941 “a date that will live in infamy” according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech before a joint session of Congress. The Senate and the House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously recognizing a state of war against Japan. Germany and Italy were added to the list of enemy nations three days after those countries declared war on the United States.
The US needed men and machines to fight these enemies. The men and women of the United States of America immediately joined various branches of the Military. Women who could not join up, “kept the home fires burning”, either replacing men in factories, working in fields to keep the military well fed or providing moral support to those whose roles in life changed overnight.
The Citizens who served or settled in Watervliet, Bainbridge, Hagar, and Coloma Townships:
North Berrien Veterans
* denotes maiden name that may have changed
Corliss Abbott
Herbert Abbott
Vito Abbott
Robert Abel
Raymond Adams
Vern Albright
James Aldis
Merion Allen Jr.
Lawrence Anderson
John Andrasi
Paul Andrasi
Joe Angelo
Tony Angelo
Billy (William) Appel
Donald Arcus
Albert A. Arent
Allen Arent
Allen C. Arent
Duane Arent
Harry Duane Arent
Lawrence Arent
Noble Arent
Roland Arent
Myrl Arnold
Paul Arnold
Leonard Arntz
Marvin Arntz
Ben Arny
Carl Ashbrook
Merle Ashbrook
John Astopenia
Joe Azzarolo
Allen Bachman
Bernard Bachman
Leonard Bachman
Robert Bachman
Ed Bahm
Ronald Bahm
Henry Baiers
Francis Bailey
J. D. Bailey
Robert Balfour
Stanley Barchalk
Pat Barchett
Robert Barchett
Walter Barchett
Carmel Bartolone
George Bartolone
Hazzio Bartolone
James Bartolone
Harold Bauschke
Raymond Bauschke
Irving Baushke
Malcolm Baushke
Carter Beach
Clare Beam
Garth Beam
Albert E. Becht
Edson Becht
Ingar Becht
Jack Becht
Richard Becht
Ronald Becht
Albert E. Beck
Clyde Becker
Bicknell Beckwith
Dale Beeney
Henry Bekkering
Jake Bekkering
Harold E. Benedix
A. J. Bernier
Howard Besemer
August Bessemer
Christian Bessemer
Howard Bessemer
William Bessemer
Edward Betz
Jim Betz
William Beverly Jr.
Theodore E. Biastock
Theodore Birmele
Howard Bishop
Lyman Bittner
Ted Blahnik
Garland Blankenship
Earl Blanshan
Harold Blanshan
Winfield Bloomingdale
Earnest Bohle
William Bohle
Ed. Bonkski
Mike Bonoma
Robert Boss
Willis Bouma
Betty Boyer*
Lenore Boyer
Stanley M. Boynton
Vern M. Boynton
James Bradford
Marvin Brant
Wilson Brant
Lyman Brant
Barney Brant, Jr.
Russell Brant, Jr.
Terrell G. Bratton
Richard Bridges
William Bridgman
Donald Briney
Richard Brooks
Charles Brown
Fred Brown
Robert Brown
John Brule
George Bucher
Darold Budd
Francis Buecke
A. J. Bullard
Chester Bullard
Paul Bullard
Jack Bury
Lyle Butzbach
Bob Camp
Raymond Camp
Joseph Cannella
Louis Cannella
Rodney Caprez
Russell Carlson
John Carlton
Kenneth Carr
Richard Carr
Russell Carter
Sharon Castle*
Vernon Castle
Stanley Cerecky
Richard Frank Cerny
Don Charleston
Elmer Churchill
RV Alvin Churchill
Billy Clark
James Clark
Joe Clark
Lloyd Clark
Thomas Clark
John Cochrane
Howard Cole
Jack Coleman
Wilbur Coleman
Harry Congdon
Joseph Conway, M.D.
Orin Cook
Lewis Cordaro
Benny Cowgill
Fred Creators
Byron Cross
Robert Cross
Guy Cross, Jr.
Floyd Crumb
Anthony Cupani
Bob Curtis
Dick Curtis
Don Curtis
Monroe Damon
Warren Damon
Albert Danneffel
George Danneffel
Blaine Dannenberg
Frank J. Davis
Lewis Davis
Luke Davis
Ed Day
John DeField
James DeFields
James DeGroff, Jr.
Clarence DeLong
Jack DeRosa
Thomas DeRosa
Wilbur Dick
Edward O. Dill
Lewis Dimiceli
Howard T. Divis
Irwin Divis
Raymond Dlouhy
Glenn Allen Dockter
Warren Dockter
Leonard Dolezan
Lockade Dolezan
William Dominion
Betty Donaldson
Arland Doolittle
Wilbur Dorstewitz
Arvin Dougan
Raymond Drake
Roland Drell
Melvin Dukesherer
Ormund Dukesherer
Elmer Dunbar
Lawrence Dunbar
Robert Dunbar
Lee Dunham
Tom Dunham
Bryce Dunlop
Wesley Dunning
Wilbur Durflinger
Frank Dykas
Richard Eastman
Fred Edinborough
Martin Edinborough
Warren Edinborough
Dr. William Ednie
Edward Eglinsdoerfer
Walter Eglinsdoerfer
Emil Eisbrenner
William Eisbrenner
Eric Eisen
Oswald Eisen
Howard Elliott
Robert Elson
Roy Elson
Kenneth Emhoff
Rooco J. Emma
Sylvester W. Enders
Guestave Enewald
Robert Enewald
Richard Enos
Eugene Evans
Kenneth Evans
Lawrence Evans
Walter Fabrick
Wilbur Fabrick
Harvey Faram
Anthony Fardella
Joe Fardella
Clifford Farquhar, Jr.
Betty Faulkman*
Robert FaultersacK
Rodney Faultersack
Walter Feitz
Lawrence Feller
Leverne G. Feller
Victor Fellner
Bob Ferguson
Norris Feury
Erwin Fichtner
Walter Fiezt
Harry Fillmore
James Fisher
Oscar Fisher
Deane Fizzell
Robert Flaherty
Dick Fletcher
Betty Folkman*
Jack R. Foote
Roy Forrester
Elmer Frazier
Henry Frazier
James Frazier
Daniel Fredrick
Gustave Fredrick
Lawrence Freisen
Ernest Fritz
Sebastian Fritz
Harold J. Fulton
Ernest Galleghar
Martha Gard*
Paul Gard
Harold Gartrell
Grace Gatchell*
Albert Gearing
Don Gearing
Irving Gelder
Anthony Genovese
Peter Genovese
Tom Gibson
Bob Gillard
Erwin Gillard
Everett Goff
William Goff
Elton Goswick
Walter Graber
Wesley Graham
Victor Grahn
Joe Greco
Steve Greco
Donald Griffin
Alvin Gunn
Clarence Gunn
John Gunn
Bernard Hafer
Clifford Hafer
John Hafer
William Hafer
L. D. Hall
Edison Hamilton
Eugene Hamilton
Raymond Hansen
Douglas Harper
Kenneth Harper
Merlin Harper
Richard Harper
Marvin Harper Jr.
Francis Harris
Theo Harris
William Harris
Clarence Hart
George Hartmann
John Hartmann
Lloyd Hathaway
Clifford Hauch
Hervey Hauch
Ed Hawks
Lloyd Hawks
Harold Hawn
Jim C. Hawn
Donald Hazen
Floyd Hazen
Maynard Hazen
Rupert Hazen
Sylvester Hazen
Donald Head
John Head
Pliney Heller
Otto Helweg
Arthur Helwig
Thomas Hembree
Arthur Henke
Louis Hennesey
Fabian Hereeg
Bernard Herman
Robert Herman
Richard Herrick
Murray Herron
Wendell Hickey
Bob Hiler
Gordon Hiler
Lawrence Hiler
Max Hiler
Robert Hiler
Vernon Hiler
Kenneth Hill
Adolph Hirsch
Fred Hirsch
Robert Hoffenkamp
Walter Holmer
Allen Horney
Norman Horney
William Horney
Howard Hosbein
Alton Howard
Clyde Howard
Eldon Howard
Richard Howe
Bernard Hughes
Maynard Hultgren
Roland Hultgren
Don Hunt
Robert Hunt
G. W. Hutchins
Norbert Hutchins
Venantius Hutchins
Ernest Imbordino
Guy Imbordino
Jack Imbordino
Thomas Imbordino
Donald Jacobs
Harold Jaffke
Robert Jaffke
Dan Jakovich
Elmer Jannert
Edwin Jennings
Ronald Jennings
Edward Jetzke
William H. N. Jobe
Allen Johnson
Morris Johnson
Virgil Johnson
John Joiner
Chester Jollay
Farris Jollay
James Jollay
Morris Jones
Harry Karlson
Martin Katz
Sidney Katz
Dick Kean
Lyman Keigley
Milo Keigley
Roscoe Keigley
Sereno Keigley
Alex Keil
Alvin Keller
Leland Kelley
Roy Kelly
Charles Kent
Leonard Kepil
Charles Ketelhut
Stanley Ketelhut
Charles Kibler
Durand Walter Kibler
Fred C. Kibler
Harvey Kibler
Wilbur Kibler
Clifford Kiernan
Donald Kilmark
Martin Kilmark
Robert Kilmark
Andrew King
Benjamin King
Ervin King, Jr.
Robert Kingsley
Kendrick Kinyon
Roy Kinzler
Ray Knapp
Carroll Kniebes
Lloyd Kniebes
Lowell Kniebes
Arthur Knuth
John Kolenko
Joseph Kolenko
Louis M. Koshar
Rudy Koshar
Ervin Kraklau
William Kraklau
Howard Krall
Leonard Krall, MD
Raymond Krenek
Victor Kreuzenstein
Allan L. Krieger
Armin Krieger
Charles A. Krieger
Earl Krieger
Ernest Krieger
George Krieger
John Krieger
Martin Krieger
Oscar Krieger
Robert Krisan
Ted Kroschel
John D. Krugman
August E. Kuehl
Ed LaBounty
Joseph LaGalbo
Donald Lahr
William Lamphear
Aage Larsen
William Larson
Sam Lauricella
Santo Lauricella
Kenneth Lawson
Charles Leatz
Ernest Leatz
Irving Harry Leatz
Earl LeBon
Merlin LeBon
D. Paul Lee
Julia Mary Lee
Clarence Leonard
Henry Leverton
Wilber Leverton
Art Lewis
Robert Lewis
Rolf Lofblad
Rose Liebermann*
Abe Liebermann
Al Liebermann
Harry Lifton
Lewis Lifton
Jack Lilly
Gordon Lindahl
Horace Lloyd
Korben Locke
Angelo Lombardo
James Lombardo
Joe Lomonaco
Bob Long
Jack Long
Lewis Long
Wilbur Long
Bob Lottridge
Franklin Ludwig
Emanuel Lull
James Lull
Rev. A. M. Lusk
Budd Lyman
Bernard Lynch
Milford Lynch
Richard Lyon
William Mack
John Mack, Jr.
Osro Mahler
Alfred A. Mainwaring
Clyde Mann
Anthony Marsalla
Joseph Marsalla
Phillip Marsalla
Howard Martin
Howard Martin
Irving Martin
Jack Martin
Norval Martin
Roscoe Martin
Arthur F. Martin, Sr.
Steve Martinic
Clarence Marutz
Frank Mascardella
Evert Mast
Ralph Mast
Gordon Matrau
Henry M. Matrau
Charles Maurig
Joseph Maurig
Harold McCarthy
Donald McClare
John McCrery
James McGee
Jay R. McGee
John McGovern
William McGovern
Gale McGowan
Bernard McIntosh
Earl McKean
Stanley McKean
Jack McKenney
Edward McKie
Leo McNees
Frank Megna
John Megna
Mike Megna
Vincent Megna
Alois Mendenhall
Amos Mensinger
Edgar Mensinger
Edward Mensinger
Emil Mensinger
Samuel Mensinger
Edward Meyers
George Meyers
Don Milham
John Miller
William Miller
Leslie Miners
Carl Mishler
Charles Mishler
Arnold L. Molter
Bertrand Molter
Percy Molter
Richard Molter
Victor Molter
Albert Monnich
Fred Monnich
Richard Morlock
Robert Morlock
George Morseau
Roy Mort
Walter Moser
Walter Moser
Karl Moser, MD
Homer Andrew Mullins
Gustave Mundt
Lester Mundt
John Munjoy
John Murphy
Harold Muth
Robert Muth
Fr. Roland Myrick
Robert Nafziger
Fred Nelson
Allen Nemitz
Elmer Nemitz
Walter Nemitz
Edwin Neumann
Harold Gartrell Newton
Oran Nicholas
Joe Nichols
Joseph W. Nichols
Roy Nimtz
George Noffke
Herbert Noffke
Ferris Norman
G. Nothdruft
Ernest Nybro
William O'Brien
James Ogg
Dick O'Hara
Thomas O'Hara, Jr.
Carl Olmstead
William Olmstead
Pat O'Malley
George Orlando
Darrell Osgood
Raymond Ostrom
Rex Packard
Robert Packard
J. D. Page
Charles Palmanteer
Kenneth Palmanteer
Gilbert Palmer
James Palmer
John Palmer
Kenneth Palmer
Alfred Pantaleo
DeBrando Pantaleo
Frank Pantelleria
Joe Pantelleria
Tony Pantelleria
Duane Parmeter
Donald Pearson
Paul Pecoraro
Bob Peirce
Paul Peirce
Al Penrose
Helen E. Peters*
Clayton Allen Peters
Lyle Peters
Helen Peterson*
George Peterson
John Peterson
Thomas Peterson
William Petertil
Kenneth Peterson
Frank Pflugradt
Lyle Phillips
Staunton Phillips
William Phillips
Carmel Picone*
Carlo Picone
Lee Pinyard
Jack Piriano
Tony Piriano
Lydia Pitcher*
Leonard Pitcher
Charles Polmanteer
Jack Porter
James Porter
Geraldine Potts*
Robert Potts
Lathan Price
John Provenzano
Kelly Provenzano
Julius Pudell
Lawrence Pudell
Wilbert Pudell
Arthur Quigley
James Quigley
John Quigley
Marvin Radom
Sheldon Radom
Helmuth Radtke
Raymond Radtke
Bob Ramer
Don Ramer
Albert (Bud) Randall
Arthur Randall
Earl Ray
Ted Ray
Warner Ray
George Ray, Jr.
Bill Reddie
Alanson Reed
John Reed
Herbert Reimers
Richard Reinhardt
Robert Reinhardt
Robert Reinhardt
Walter Reinhardt
Calvin Renner
Hugo Renner
Lloyd Renner
Norman Renner
Nick Retz
Paul Retz
Robert Retz
Mary Ribinson
James Rich
Charles Ritter
Jason Robinson
William Robinson
Edward Rockwell
Elson Rodewald
Ewald Rodewald
Henry Rodewald
Nowell (Bud) Rodewald
Chester Rogalski
Ed Rogel
Harley Rogers
Lewis Rogers
Richard Rogers
Warren Rogers
Joseph Rolback
Thomas Rose
Everett Rose
Bartley Rose, Jr.
V. M. Rosemaid
Donald Rosewall
John Ross
Norman Rottler
Wilfred Rottler
Otis Rupriht
John Saltzman
Robert Saltzman
Walter Saltzman
Charles Salverson
Gustav Scheffler
Herbert Scheffler
Ted Scheid, Jr.
Spencer Schlipp
Clarence Schommer
Donald Schreiber
Edward Schreiber
Norman Schultz
Raymond Schultz
Raymond H. Schultz
Norman Schwartz
Jerome Scott
Merritt Seale
Elmo Seel
Donald Seiber
Monroe Seiber
Raynold Seiber
Reinhold Seiber
Vernon Sells
Alfred Selter
Donald Selter
Gerald Selter
Kenneth Selter
Robert Selter
Roland Selter
Tony Senei
Chester Sewcyck
Ernie Sewcyck
Tommie Sewcyck
George Shane
George Shane
Kenneth Shimer
Charles Shine
Luther Shine
Don Shitney
Edward Sieber
Emery Sieber
Joseph Sieber
Raynold Sieber
Roy Siekmann
Walter Siewart
William Siewart
Tony Sineni
Andrew Sipla
Robert Smeed
Clayton Smith
ConwaY Smith
Eugene Smith
Glenn Smith
Harold Smith
Ralph Smith
Richard Smith
Robert Smith
Wendell Smith
Lloyd Smoot
Kenneth Snow
Sophia Sonnenberg*
Donald Sonnenberg
Don Soper
Monroe Spink
Bill Spore
Elmer Spore
Bob Sprague
Earl Sprague
Lyle Sprague
Charles Springer
Arnold Stainbrook
Charles Stainbrook
Don Stakley
Leroy Stanley
Ralph Stanley
Ralph M. Stanley
Kenneth Stark
Douglas Stedman
Earl Stedman
David Steele, Jr.
Loren Steinborn
Elmer Steinke
Karl Stelter
Thomas Stennecke
C. J. Stevens
Tommy Stevens
Lowen Stewart
Owen Stewart
Raymond Stewart
Edson Stickney
Truxt. Stienbarger
Omer Stineman
Karl Stlter
Allen C. Stockdale
Clinton Stoddard
Elmer Storey
Paul Stowell
Russell Stowers
William Stowers
Miles Strejc
Robert Strine
Dan Strong
Harvey Strong
Lawrence Strouse
Carl Stuart
Connie Suits*
Bob Summerrill
William Sumner
Charles Surland
Earl Sutton
Joseph Suwarsky
Stanley Suwarsky
John Swan
Lawrence Swan
Robert Swan
Tony Sweeny
Gerald Sweet
Steve Szarkowski
Bob Tallman
Alice Taylor*
Harry Taylor
James R. Taylor
Vallia Tenter
William Tenter
Harry Thompson
Louis Thurston
Duane Tibbs
Louise Tousain
Lester Tracy
Orin Treder
James Trowbridge
Donald Truhn
James Truhn
Paul Turner
Virgil Umphrey
Fred Undem
Claude Unrath
Nathan Valentz
Bob Van Horn
Seraphine (Pat) Petrocelli Van Loon
Lawrence Van Loon
Leonard J. Van Pelt
Glen Van Scyoc
Edward Velek
Fred Velek
Burel Ververka
Edward Vollrath
Harley Vollrath
Fred Vonderheid
Donald Waits
Oliveen Waldo
Gordon Walker
Charles Walls
Howard Walther
Spencer Walther
Frank Ware
Victoria Ware
William Ware
Douglas Warman
Wilbur Warman
Jerome Warren
Robert Warren
Norman Warsko
Orville Warsko
Lewis Webb
William Webb
Floyd Weber
Frank Weber
Gilford Weber
Gordon Weber
Norman Weber
Richard Weber
Marvin Weigle
Courtie Weller
Harold Weller
Rex Weller
Alfred Wendzel
Richard Wendzel
Robert White
Bob Whitney
Don Whitney
Earl Wickham
Victor Wier
Ronald Wigent
Perle Wilcoxson
Charles Williams
Donald Williams
Warren Williams
Warren Williams
Gerald Willmeng
Howard Willmeng
Lewis (Louis) Willmeng
Lumon Willmeng
Warren Willmeng
Clayton Wilson
Ladd Ray Wilson
Arden Winkel
Ivan D. Winkel
Willard Winkel
Glen Winkler
Paul Winkler
George Wolf
LeRoy Wolff
Richard Wood
George Woodley
Dick Woodruff
Floyd Woodruff
Jim Woodruff
John Woodruff
Bob Woodstock
Fred Woodward
Kenneth Woodward
Roger Woodward
Robert Woodworth
William Woodworth
George Wooley
Richard Wooley
Jerry Wurn
John Yakel
William Yakel
Peter Yancich
Jim Yeske
William Yeske
Otto Yirchott
Walter Yirchott
Ed Youdell
Fred Youdell
Allen Young
Roy Young, Jr.
Clifford Yund
Harry Zepik
Joseph Zilkowski
Ernest Zimay
