3 FREED FROM NAZI PRISONS
More Glad News Comes to Dubuqueland Families
More good news has been received by Dubuqueland families, for it was reported Thursday that three servicemen, Pfc. Ralph J. Schetgen and Pfc. William Weber, of Dubuque, and Pvt. William Schilling, East Dubuque, all of whom were German prisoners, are once again under allied military control.
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Pvt. William Schilling, who was also reported missing since last December and placed on the list of captured in March, was liberated recently from a Nazi prison camp, according to word received by his wife, of East Dubuque.
The soldier, who managed the Schilling Hardware store in East Dubuque before entering the service, is the father of an infant daughter, Linda, and his mother, Mrs. F.J. Schilling, is also a resident of that city.
Source: Dubuque Telegraph Herald, April 26, 1945 pg 1, col 7
