Russell Arends Is Wounded In Germany, Wire Says
WOUNDED FEB. 4, MR. AND MRS. HENRY ARENDS
ARE NOTIFIED
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arends, who live west of town, were informed by the war department Wednesday morning that their son, Russell Arends, was wounded in action Feb. 4. The message is the third received in this community within the last ten days regarding action on the western front. [Pvt. Robert Nordli, seriously wounded in action, and Pvt. Duane Neuman, killed in action, both in Belgium.]
Arends entered the service June 2 and went overseas in mid-December. He was in the same convoy in which Duane Newman sailed. He had a furlough home which ended Nov. 7 before he went overseas.
Mr. and Mrs. Arends have had three V-mail letters from him since he has been overseas, all written in January.
The official telegram said he was injured in German and a letter would follow.
Source: The Milford Mail, Milford, Iowa, Thursday, February 15, 1945, Pages 1, 4, & 6
OUR NEIGHBORS in the SERVICE
Milford, Ia.—Two Milford families have had good word from sons in service, after messages stating injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Arne Nordli’s son, Bob, has written that he has been transferred to a hospital in England from Paris and had met and visited with other Iowa youths. Nordli was injured in the leg after he became separated from his outfit in the December break through and was reported missing.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Arends, whose son Russell was in the same outfit with Nordli on the Belgium border, has written that his injury was to the knee and he is also in a hospital in England. He was flow there from Belgium.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, February 26, 1945
***Further Research:
Russell William Arends was born Jan. 10, 1926 to Henry O. and Emma Mahalia Graves Arends. He died May 10, 1998 and is buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Hartley, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
