Lt. Robert E. MIEHE 1918-1945 Germany

MIEHE, WARNKE

Posted By: Andrew BROWN (email)
Date: 11/1/2010 at 11:22:15

1st Lt. Robert E. MIEHE
1918-1945

Arlington, Ia. – The body of Lt. Robert Miehe will arrive in Arlington from Europe Tuesday, and will be taken to St. John’s Lutheran Church, where funeral services will be at 2 P.M. Tuesday, Rev. H. A. Wilke officiating. Burial will be in Maynard cemetery.

Lieutenant Miehe was killed in action in Germany Apr. 5, 1945.

The son of Dr. and Mrs. O. C. Miehe, now of Maynard (Ia.), he was graduated from the Arlington high school, and was a reserve officer training corps graduate of the University of Iowa in June, 1942.

He entered service that month and served in north Africa, Tunisia, Sicily, France, Belgium and Germany.

Wounded in action twice, he wore the Combat infantry badge, purple heart, and two oak leaf clusters.

Surviving besides his parents(Oscar MIEHE & Dora WARNKE), is one sister, Mrs. Lawrence Guthart, Charles City (Ia.).

(Waterloo IA Daily Courier 19DEC1948)