Name:
Robert F. Wenditz
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
13066939
Unit:
503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment
Date of Death:
1945-02-19
State:
Pennsylvania
Cemetery:
Salunga Mennonite Cemetery, Pennsylvania
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Robert F. Wenditz was born in 1923 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Charles Albert Wenditz and Grace Mae Metzler Wenditz. Robert entered the service in 1941, trained at Fort Benning, GA and served with the paratroops in the South Pacific for two years, participating in the invasions of New Guinea and the Philippines. He was Killed in Action on February 16, 1945 during the battle for the recapture of Corregidor, Philippines against the defending Japanese garrison on the island and is now buried in the Salunga Mennonite Cemetery, Salunga, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.