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Personal info

Full name
VENDT, Albert William
Date of birth
13 January 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Blumenwerder, Pommern, Germany
Hometown
Ossineke, Alpena County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36569727
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
Peddenberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
L 19 22

Immediate family

Members
Albert Vendt (father)
Ottilie (Hammermeister) Vendt (mother)
Fred H. Vendt (brother)
Gertrude E. Vendt (sister)

More information

Albert William Vendt, christened as Albert Friedrich Wilhelm was born in Germany and arrived in New York on 1 July 1926 when he was four years old. He became a US citizen in 1943.

He was sent overseas in September 1944.

His brother Fred (Fritz) served with the 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Albert's family, Susan Linton, The Alpena News - 10 April 1945, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - Naturalization Record

Photo source: Tom Verheijden, Susan Linton The Alpena News - 10 April 1945