WAR SERVICE NEWS.
Melvin K. Marienau, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marienau of route 4, LeMars, has recently been promoted from private first class to his present rank of corporal, while serving with an infantry regiment on an advance U.S. base in the South Pacific area. Cpl. Marienau has been doing outstanding work in the mortar section of a rifle company. A former employee of the Great Northern railroad, he has been overseas since September 1942. (Official Army news release)
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, August 2, 1943 (photo included)
NEWS of the MERRILL SERVICE MEN
From Merrill Service Men's News
Melvin Marieneau, Sgt. has been with the infantry in the southwest Pacific 20 months, training in the Fiji and New Hebrides Islands before moving closer to Tokio. He visited London. His wife, Helen LaBahn, is in Merrill.
Source: The LeMars Sentinel, Friday, April 14, 1944
***Further Research:
Melvin Kenneth Marienau was born June 19, 1920 to John Gerhard Edward and Caroline Mattas Marienau. He died May 8, 2013 and is buried in Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery, LeMars, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
