WWII-MI-WILDMAN, Ralph E
RALPH WILDMAN - POW released
Source: Crawfordsville Journal-Review 6-21-1945
Official releases from the Dept of War, Thursday reported among the army men wounded in the Pacific is Staff Sgt. Everett L. Everman, Roachdale. Prisoners reported officially as having been liberated include Technical Sgt Ralph E. Wildman of Mellott, and Pfc. Waymar D. Trovel of Romney. Among men officially reported by the navy as wounded is Fire Lt. Earl Morton Dowd, Jr. of the US Marine Corps. Wounded somewhere in the Pacific theater of war. Lt. Dowd, it is understood, has lost the sight of one eye as the result of his wounds. Lt. Dowd is a former star football and basketball player at Wabash College. --- kbz
Source: Hillsboro Times ?
Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Wildman of near Newtown, received a telegram Monday, stating their son Tech Sgt Ralph E. Wildman, 20, is Missing in Action. He was an aerial gunner on aaaa Flying Fortress which was brought down over Europe on April 29. He graduated from Newtown HS in 1941 and was employed at the Lafayette Aluminum plant before his enlistment in the Air Corps on Dec 4, 1942. After receiving his training at Amarillo, Texas, Walla Walla, Wash and Sioux City, Iowa, he had been stationed in England about a year. He ws married to Miss Betty Dawson of Waynetown at Sioux City on Dec 23, 1943. Mrs. Wildman is now employed at Allisons in Indianapolis. He has four brother and five sisters. --- transcribed by kbz