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Richard Von Wald - LST 507
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Staff Sgt. Richard Von Wald - U. S. Army |
| The following was submitted by his niece, Laurie Horsch |
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Richard Von Wald went to Whitewater State Teachers College in Wisconsin. He was the manager of an A & P store in Milwaukee, WI before being drafted in March of 1942. He left from Milwaukee to Camp Brackenridge, Kentucky where he became part of the 557th Railhead Army Company. |