(courtesy of Kenneth
Schaeffer)Grave
marker for William F. Arndt in Plot N9, Saint Peter's Union Church
Cemetery, Lynnville (Lehigh county, Pennsylvania.
 William
was registered with the local draft board (record at left) and
voluntarily enlisted in the
Army at Erie, PA on 15 October 1942.
On 21 October 1942,
Pvt Arndt was transferred from the Reception Center, Fort George G.
Meade, MD to Company C, 508th PIR.
Following the Normandy
Campaign, he was appointed to the grade of Pfc on 20 July 1944.
Pvt Arndt was wounded in
action in Germany on 10 February 1945. Still hospitalized on 30
May 1945, he was transferred to the Detachment of Patients. He was
discharged from the Army on 190 January 1946.
His military
decorations include the Purple Heart and the Bronze Service Arrowhead
device awarded for participation in the Normandy assault.
William filed this
application for the Pennsylvania WWII Veterans bonus on 18 January 1950.
He was credited with 21 months of domestic duty and 18 months of foreign
service which gave him a $480 award. |
