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Personal info

Full name
SEEGER, Wendel S
Date of birth
1 May 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Michigan
Hometown
Muskegon County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36159705
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Platoon Commander
Unit
28th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 February 1945
Place of death
Stockheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 10 29

Immediate family

Members
Wesley D. Seeger (father)
Ruth M. (Potter) Seeger (mother)
Consuela Seeger (sister)
Roxanne R. Seeger (sister)
Wesley D. Seeger Jr. (brother)
Mary M. Seeger (sister)
Jack M. Seeger (brother)
Rosemary H. Seeger (sister)
Robert M. Seeger (brother)
Frances M. (Richards) Seeger (wife)

More information

Sgt Wendel S. Seeger was a welder before he enlisted in Kalamazoo, Michigan on 8 August 1941.

He was wounded by shrapnel in Germany on 18 December 1944. After recovering, he returned to his unit.

Sgt Seeger is remembered at the Mona View Cemetery in Muskegon Heights, Muskegon County, Michigan.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.ancestry.com - Muskegon County (MI) Genealogical Society Marriage Index / 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report 28th Infantry Regiment

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Richard Mullally / Laura Plummer