SOLDIER NEWS.
Edward Wiltgen, electrician 1C is spending his leave at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N.W. Wiltgen. The young sailor has been in action again in the Pacific, and will now report to San Francisco, to be transferred to another department in the Navy. Eddie, as his friends call him, was a member of the crew of the Hornet when it launched the planes for the very first bombing of Tokyo, around a year and a half ago. The Hornet was eventually sunk, but young Wiltgen and another LeMars boy, Leo Mayrose, were among those rescued and returned to duty.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, June 26, 1944
Edward Peter Wiltgen was born Mar. 27, 1921 to Nicholas W. and Dorothy K. Nemmers Wiltgen. He die Feb. 23, 1994 and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
