Corning Officer Meets Deitrich In Germany
Marlene Dietrich, noted film star, entertaining men on the battle front in Germany, was the subject of Gordon Gammack’s column in the Des Moines Register Tuesday morning. Local interest in the story comes through the fact that a Corning boy, Capt. Sam Binder, was prominently mentioned. Gammack wrote:
“Then Dietrich posed for pictures with the Iowa G. I’s. and Capt. Sam Binder, 29, Corning, Iowa, commander of an anti-tank company, and a few others got her autograph on some foreign money.”
Source: Adams County Free Press, Corning, Iowa, Thursday, February 08, 1945, Page 1
Samuel Henry Binder was born Oct. 3, 1915 to Frederick and Emily Decou Binder. He died Nov. 28, 1992 and is buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, TX.
Lt. Col. Binder served with the U.S. Army in World War II and Korea.
Source: ancestry.com
