NEWS of the Boys in the Service.
Edmund Rohde, who was employed with the Iowa Public Service company before he went into the Army last spring, is now an aviation cadet at Santa Ana, California, and hopes to receive his wings and a commission upon completion of the course.
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A brief letter came Monday from Av. Cadet Edmund W. Rohde, son of Mrs. Alma Rohde of LeMars, formerly of Remsen. Edmund reports a change of address from Oshkosh, Wis., to the air corps classification center at Santa Ana, Calif. He says he has been classified as a bombardier and is attending the bombardier-navigator pre-flight school.
Source: The LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, August 10, 1943
Mrs. Alma Rohde of LeMars, formerly of Remsen, informs the Bell-Enterprise that her son Edmund, aviation cadet formerly at Kingman, Ariz., has been transferred to Deming, N. M.
Source: The Remsen Bell-Enterprise, January 6, 1944
YOU BUY THE BONDS TO ENABLE THESE COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS TO CARRY ON
Above is another panel of Plymouth countyans in the service. Another panel will appear next Thursday, and with it The Globe-Post exhausts its supply of pictures of men and women in uniform. Some of the pictures have been in this office for some time, but arrangements have now been made to print pictures of those in the service without much delay. Bring or send them in to The Globe-Post, but make sure it is a good print. The average print, taken with a small camera, usually lacks the sharpness and does not make good copy. The Globe-Post photographic department will advise you if the print will reproduce properly. Pictures never leave the office, and can be called for after the picture appears in the paper. Please identify all prints.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, June 12, 1944 (photo included)
Edmund William Rohde was born Sept. 30, 1921 to Claus William and Alma Sjudt Rohde. He died Oct. 6, 1944 and is buried in Remsen Cemetery, Remsen, IA. He was initially buried in Europe and repatriated to the U.S. in 1947.
2nd Lt. Rohde served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps and was MIA/KIA while serving as bombardier aboard B-17G, #43-37883 which was hit in an attack on targets in Berlin.
Source: ancestry.com
