Rev. J. W. Fiegenbaum
In the photo on the right, we see a young J.W. with his mother, Katherine Margarete (Maun) Fiegenbaum, and his grandmother, Henriette Amelia Caroline (Starkebaum) Fiegenbaum at their home in Miami, Oklahoma about September 12, 1926.
J.W. was inducted into the U.S. Army on 10 November 1944 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He received his infantry basic training and military law enforcement training at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, North Little Rock, Arkansas. Serving as a Tec 5 in the 275th Military Police Service Company, he embarked on the Gen. H. B. Freeman on 1 June 1945 from Riverside, California and arrived on 10 July 1945 at Calcutta, India. His assignments also took him to Karachi, India; Kandy, Ceylon; and Shanghai, China. He arrived back in San Francisco, California aboard the U.S.A.T. David Shanks on 27 August 1946. J. was honorably discharged at Fort Sheridan, Illinois on 25 October 1946.
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