Published in THE DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, internet edition, MAY 19, 1944, PAGE EIGHTEEN
11 SERVICE MEN NAMED IN CASUALTY LIST FOR UTAH: FOUR KILLED, FOUR MISSING, TWO HELD PRISONER, ONE WOUNDED IN ACTION
KILLED: Cpl. Kenneth B. Wettstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wettstein Jr., 1886 Atkin Ave.
Corporal Wettstein was one of seven army fliers killed when a four-engined B-24 bomber crashed into a mountainside three miles east of March Field, Calif., late Tuesday night.
Born Aug. 13, 1922, in Salt Lake, he was graduated from West High School and attended Henager's Business College. He enlisted in the the service Feb. 8, 1943. After completion of training at March Field, he would have gone overseas.
Survivors include his parents, and two brothers, First Lt. James D. Wettstein, stationed in London, England, and Second Lt. Dave Allen Wettstein, Lincoln, Neb. (article amended to include information on this soldier only)
Published in THE DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, internet edition, MAY 19, 1944, PAGE EIGHTEEN
11 SERVICE MEN NAMED IN CASUALTY LIST FOR UTAH: FOUR KILLED, FOUR MISSING, TWO HELD PRISONER, ONE WOUNDED IN ACTION
KILLED: Cpl. Kenneth B. Wettstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wettstein Jr., 1886 Atkin Ave.
Corporal Wettstein was one of seven army fliers killed when a four-engined B-24 bomber crashed into a mountainside three miles east of March Field, Calif., late Tuesday night.
Born Aug. 13, 1922, in Salt Lake, he was graduated from West High School and attended Henager's Business College. He enlisted in the the service Feb. 8, 1943. After completion of training at March Field, he would have gone overseas.
Survivors include his parents, and two brothers, First Lt. James D. Wettstein, stationed in London, England, and Second Lt. Dave Allen Wettstein, Lincoln, Neb. (article amended to include information on this soldier only)
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