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The following Volga Germans and Volga German descendants died while in military service to their respective countries.
Allendorf, Michael George (2 July 1948 - 11 March 1969 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Amen, Heinrich (23 May 1879 - 12 April 1903 Russo-Japanese War) Russia
Appelhans, Joseph Edward (20 February 1918 - 20 September 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Arnhold, Albert Joseph (4 December 1924 - 4 May 1945 at sea - South Pacific) USA [Online]
Bahl, Andrew Donald (25 April 1910 - 12 September 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Bahl, Walter Timothy (14 August 1950 - 3 December 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Basgall, Edwin Alois (5 March 1922 - 28 April 1944 at sea) USA [Online]
Bastron, Alton Leroy (27 November 1911 - 30 June 1945 India) USA [Online]
Batty, Claude Albert (17 May 1918 - 2 December 1950 North Korea) USA [Online]
Bauer, Harold William (20 November 1908 - 16 November 1942 Guadalcanal) USA [Online]
Baustian, Dean D. (3 April 1925 - 13 January 1945 Belgium) USA [Online]
Benner, Charles Alexander (1 February 1900 - 5 July 1942 Philippines) USA [Online]
Billinger, Richard Joseph (25 October 1930 - 12 August 1950 South Korea) USA [Online]
Blitz, Leo (9 April 1921 - 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor) USA [Online]
Blitz, Rudolph (9 April 1921 - 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor) USA [Online]
Borgens, Jerry Lee (17 February 1947 - 13 March 1967 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Boxler, Alvin Anthony (6 November 1926 - 9 September 1951 North Korea) USA [Online]
Brack, Alfred (16 June 1907 - 7 June 1944 France) USA [Online]
Brack, Alvia Elmer (18 April 1923 - 29 March 1945 Netherlands) USA [Online]
Brack, Leonard Marion (9 September 1920 - 18 November 1944 France) USA [Online]
Brehm, Walter John (14 October 1922 - 16 June 1944 Saipan) USA [Online]
Breit, Hubert (16 April 1923 - 20 January 1945 Belgium) USA [Online]
Breit, Joseph M. (29 September 1893 - 31 July 1918 France) USA [Online]
Breit, Raymond G. (28 March 1917 - 16 November 1949 at sea) USA [Online]
Brenning, Richard David (22 April 1944 - 26 July 1969 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Brueck, Richard A. (21 January 1947 - 9 March 1970 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Brunner, Kenneth Wilbur (2 July 1926 - 15 March 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Chrispen, John J. (9 October 1918 - 6 January 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Chrispens, Alexander A. (24 May 1923 - 10 January 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Chrispens, Emil (7 February 1921 - 27 June 1945) USA [Online]
Dalhaimer, John Frank (25 July 1923 - 11 July 1944 Saipan) USA [Online]
Dechant, Alois (3 May 1897 - 25 August 1918 Illinois) USA [Online]
Deghand, Bernard Lee (30 June 1964 - 15 September 2006 Afghanistan) USA [Online]
Deines, Albert E. (3 December 1925 - 5 April 1945 English Channel) USA [Online]
Deines, David George (11 July 1893 - 15 July 1918 France) USA [Online]
Deines, Herman (19 March 1919 - 12 December 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Degenhardt, Charles Herman (21 September 1918 - 26 March 1944 at sea) USA [Online]
Dellos, Samuel Lee Jr. (14 October 1942 - 5 February 1966 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Denning, Marcellus Andres (14 December 1920 - 24 November 1943 Gilbert Islands) USA [Online]
Desch, Philip Jacob (10 October 1918 - 20 November 1942 Texas) USA [Online]
Dinges, Robert M. (28 January 1926 - 5 September 1945 Alaska) USA [Online]
Dinkel, George James (6 November 1923 - 25 February 1945 Saipan) USA [Online]
Dinkel, William M. (14 October 1925 - 25 May 1945 South Pacific) USA [Online]
Dreher, Thobald (10 September 1916 - 24 March 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Dreiling, Raymond H. (29 January 1923 - 17 April 1945 Iwo Jima) USA [Online]
Dumler, Reuben Paul (14 April 1914 - 12 April 1945 Germany) USA [Online]
Eckhardt, Theodore (24 May 1931 - 26 June 1953 South Korea) USA [Online]
Ehrlich, Ferdinand (1 October 1888 - 12 October 1918 Maryland) USA [Online]
Eichler, John (24 February 1926 - 18 June 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Eisenach, Robert Lee (24 February 1947 - 26 August 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Fabrizius, Herbert (6 February 1919 - 10 June 1944 France) USA [Online]
Foos, Arthur A. (19 December 1918 - 25 July 1944 South Pacific) USA [Online]
Ford, Donald Ray (17 September 1927 - 27 August 1951 North Korea) USA [Online]
Frank, Harold Leroy (23 August 1947 - 8 July 1970 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Galyardt, Vernon L. (3 October 1919 - 7 May 1945 Japan) USA [Online]
Gerlitz, Alexander (25 September 1897 - 6 October 1940 England) Canada [Online]
Gerstner, John Henry (2 April 1928 - 30 November 1950 North Korea) USA [Online]
Gerstner, William Ambrose (14 March 1923 - 21 June 1945 Okinawa) USA [Online]
Giebler, Virgil J. (10 February 1922 - 18 January 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Glantz, Peter (2 June 1893 - 8 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Glassman, Anthony Francis Jr. (5 November 1920 - 14 September 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Glassman, Peter L. (26 November 1914 - 24 November 1942 Tunisia) USA [Online]
Goerlitz, Adam (2 December 1913 - 2 August 1943 Italy) USA [Online]
Goetz, Gerard Glenn George (20 May 1915 - 20 March 1945 France) USA [Online]
Grabbe, Victor (14 March 1920 - 26 June 1944 France) USA [Online]
Graf, Conrad Henry (13 December 1886 - 28 December 1918 Texas) USA [Online]
Graf, Gregory (5 April 1912 - 28 September 1944 France) USA [Online]
Greenwald, John (11 July 1922 - 18 August 1943 at sea) USA [Online]
Gross, Robert Joseph (2 September 1922 - 28 February 1945 Iwo Jima) USA [Online]
Hammerschmidt, Fredolin (6 April 1913 - 17 January 1945 Belgium) USA [Online]
Hanschu, Daniel M. (20 July 1917 - 1 October 1943) USA [Online]
Hartman, Celestine G. (5 September 1916 - 17 August 1944 France) USA [Online]
Hegel, Harold N. (8 January 1914 - 16 October 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Heim, Aloysius L. (23 September 1892 - 25 September 1918 France) USA [Online]
Heim, Gerard Anthony (30 August 1917 - 19 July 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Herbel, Benjamin Edwin (4 January 1911 - 25 February 1945 Germany) USA [Online]
Helzer, Jacob Jr. (25 December 1895 - 4 November 1918 France) USA [Online]
Herrman, Elmer Edward (13 January 1924 - 28 May 1945 Okinawa) USA [Online]
Herrman, Ludwig P. (17 July 1920 - 3 January 1945 Belgium) USA [Online]
Hill, Alvin Gene (22 November 1945 - 22 June 1967 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Hoff, Clarence Alfred (10 September 1916 - 28 July 1944 France) USA [Online]
Hoffman, Victor Emanuel (23 October 1893 - 10 September 1918 France) USA
Hölzer, Nikolaus (23 July 1854 - 7 April 1877 Russo-Turkish War) Russia
Hurlbut, Leonard Ray (26 January 1922 - 6 October 1944 France) USA [Online]
Jekel, Elmer (10 July 1924 - 18 March 1945 South Pacific) USA [Online]
Kaeberle, Dana James (11 July 1947 - 8 January 1969 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Kaltenberger, Edward (14 September 1921 - 16 October 1944 Angaur Island) USA [Online]
Karlin, Donald Dean (31 August 1940 - 18 December 1965 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Karst, Carl Frederick (27 October 1930 - 8 February 1974 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Karst, Herbert (31 October 1918 - 21 July 1942 Trinidad & Tobago) USA [Online]
Kinderknecht, Albert Leo (1 August 1920 - 21 February 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Kisner, William P. (10 January 1909 - 24 July 1943 California) USA [Online]
Klaus, Arthur Lee (7 September 1948 - 8 February 1969 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Klaus, Robert N. (15 April 1931 - 14 January 1953 North Korea) USA [Online]
Klauser, Alvin (26 February 1922 - 8 June 1944) USA [Online]
Knoll, Gregory Vincent (7 July 1922 - 7 November 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Koch, Henry Jake (31 July 1894 - 12 September 1918 France) USA [Online]
Koch, Victor E. (August 1892 - October 1916 at sea) USA [Online]
Koerner, Richard A. (8 August 1913 - 14 December 1944 Philippines) USA [Online]
Kohl, Henry (19 June 1899 - 17 Nov 1918 France) USA [Online]
Konschuk, Reynold David (19 January 1920 - 21 January 1945 France) Canada [Online]
Korbe, Francis Robert (11 July 1924 - 27 August 1944 New Guinea) USA [Online]
Korbe, George (8 August 1930 - 29 September 1951 North Korea) USA [Online]
Krom, Edward Ruben (8 October 1924 - 25 September 1944 at sea) USA [Online]
Krom, Vernon Lawrence (5 August 1922 - 18 December 1944 France) USA [Online]
Kuhn, Clair Joseph (12 November 1925 - 30 July 1945 at sea Pacific) USA [Online]
Kuhn, Eugene Joseph (19 October 1906 - 13 June 1944 France) USA [Online]
Kuhn, Lawrence M. (1 December 1921 - 24 October 1944 Philippines) USA [Online]
Kunstmann, Otto (22 May 1914 - 23 July 1944 France) USA [Online]
Laubhan, Karl Robert (25 September 1923 - 15 March 1945 Germany) USA [Online]
Lebsock, Robert Eugene (12 October 1927 - 29 December 1945 South Pacific) USA [Online]
Legleiter, Alois Henry (26 June 1923 - 3 April 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Lehr, Ralph Edward Sr. (25 February 1915 - 17 September 1944 Netherlands) USA [Online]
Leikam, Celestin Joseph (21 September 1909 - 24 April 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Leikam, Norman Alexius (2 June 1932 - 23 October 1965 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Leiker, Clarence John (9 February 1920 - 29 October 1944 Philippines) USA [Online]
Leiker, Lawrence J. (31 May 1915 - 2 October 1944 France) USA [Online]
Leiker, Wilfred J. (28 January 1931 - 29 March 1952 Guam) USA [Online]
Leis, William Edwin (29 January 1923 - 8 December 1943 North Africa) USA [Online]
Lenhart, Leslie Elmer (6 July 1920 - 9 August 1942 Solomon Islands) USA [Online]
Lindt, Pete (18 May 1916 - 19 August 1944 Belgium) USA [Online]
Linenberger, Arthur C. (24 May 1924 - 26 April 1945) (USA)
Lofing, John (5 April 1926 - 2 May 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Lofing, Raymond Dale (3 August 1922 - 12 October 1944 at sea) USA [Online]
Lundgrin, William F. (1 April 1910 - 6 July 1944 France) USA [Online]
Maier, Alvin (24 January 1919 - 9 November 1944 France) USA [Online]
Maier, Walter Clifford (10 June 1922 - 4 August 1944 France) USA [Online]
Manweiler, Emil H. (1924 - 5 November 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Mauer, John Peter (3 March 1913 - 14 December 1944 France) USA [Online]
Michel, Paul Elmer (17 September 1921 - 25 September 1943 Texas) USA [Online]
Milberger, Russell Dale (31 August 1949 - 9 February 1970 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Miller, Jacob (12 June 1911 - 5 June 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Miller, Milton Luther (7 August 1928 - 5 September 1950 accident) USA [Online]
Molleker, Leo (7 June 1920 - 12 May 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Neuburger, Daniel Leo (21 July 1945 - 14 August 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Ostermiller, Louis (26 November 1898 - 6 September 1918 Europe) USA [Online]
Oswald, Peter George (22 March 1961 - 27 August 2002 El Salvador) USA [Online]
Paul, Joseph A. (23 July 1910 - 27 November 1943 at sea) USA [Online]
Peiffer, Jacob A. (20 September 1902 - 3 August 1944 France) USA [Online]
Pfannenstiel, Alex A. (1899 - 15 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Pfannenstiel, Alfred George (22 November 1920 - 29 June 1944 England) USA [Online]
Pfeifer, Albert Anton (11 February 1923 - 13 January 1945 Canada) USA [Online]
Pfeifer, Ambrose Robert (25 August 1922 - 4 January 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Pfeifer, Anthony P. (4 July 1914 - 12 June 1944 France) USA [Online]
Popp, Ray Reuben (19 December 1914 - 5 September 1942 accident) USA [Online]
Quindt, David S. (4 April 1910 - 16 February 1944 accident) USA [Online]
Rebel, Alvin Alex (21 November 1924 - 19 May 1945 Okinawa) USA [Online]
Rebel, George Michael (5 November 1915 - 11 Mar 1945 Iwo Jima) USA [Online]
Rein, Herman F. (6 December 1909 - 10 November 1943 Italy) USA [Online]
Repp, Conrad William (24 August 1918 - 30 April 1944 Marshall Islands) USA [Online]
Resner, Wilmer Vernon (22 September 1925 - 25 May 1945 Okinawa) USA [Online]
Riedel, Benjamin (27 January 1924 - 8 June 1944 at sea) USA [Online]
Robben, Severin John (22 July 1915 - 24 November 1943 Gilbert Island) USA [Online]
Rohleder, Harold Francis (29 November 1925 - 15 October 1945 accident) USA [Online]
Roth, Virgil H. (22 December 1919 - 10 April 1945 Germany) USA [Online]
Rohr, Edmund (27 September 1911 - 1 November 1942 accident) USA [Online]
Ruder, Robert Francis (10 December 1931 - 13 June 1953 North Korea) USA [Online]
Rudolph, John (1913 - 16 March 1945 France) USA [Online]
Rupp, Leo John (5 April 1920 - 17 July 1943 accident) USA [Online]
Rupp, Walter (21 September 1916 - 10 August 1944 France) USA [Online]
Sack, Thomas Jacob (1 September 1896 - 13 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Sander, Virgil T. (3 March 1917 - 21 August 1941 training) USA [Online]
Sauer, Charles Alexander (23 May 1924 - 20 December 1942 Guadalcanal) USA [Online]
Saurbriet, Ruben Benjamin (17 September 1918 - 6 June 1942 American Samoa) USA [Online]
Scharton, Roy Lee (5 June 1915 - 20 June 1944 France) USA [Online]
Schauermann, Arthur Garry (24 January 1948 - 30 April 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Scheck, Michael (21 October 1920 - 4 August 1944 France) USA [Online]
Scheck, Peter Jr. (17 August 1921 - 21 June 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Scheeler, Joseph James Jr. (1 August 1923 - 8 January 1945 Luxembourg) USA [Online]
Schenkel, Emil Henry (9 November 1906 - 1 March 1945 Netherlands) USA [Online]
Schledewitz, David (23 November 1891 - 1 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Schleiger, Adam (2 March 1896 - 30 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Schmer, Conrad (20 August 1895 - 4 November 1918 France) USA [Online]
Schmer, William George (7 September 1895 - 10 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Schmidt, Leroy Vincent (12 June 1925 - 5 April 1945 Philippines) USA [Online]
Schmidt, Raymond Nicholas (3 January 1917 - 14 November 1944 Philippines) USA [Online]
Schmunk, Jeremiah Wesley Irwin (16 August 1983 - 8 July 2004 Afghanistan) USA [Online]
Schneidermiller, John (1893 - 23 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Schriner, George (September 1892 - 27 September 1918 France) USA [Online]
Schumacher, Edwin Anthony (27 February 1924 - 18 May 1945 Okinawa) USA [Online]
Schuvie, Adolph George (7 September 1914 - 17 April 1945 Germany) USA [Online]
Schuvie, Victor Francis (23 December 1910 - 30 June 1944 France) USA [Online]
Schwabauer, George (4 August 1892 - 15 March 1918 France) USA [Online]
Schwein, Raymond Rudolph (16 February 1918 - 13 December 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Short, Wilbur Wayne (14 April 1922 - 15 March 1945 Iwo Jima) USA [Online]
Sieben, Joseph George (26 Jul 1918 - 2 February 1944 England) Canada [Online]
Simon, Elmer Earl (8 August 1919 - 12 May 1943 Tunisia) USA [Online]
Staab, Alvin John (11 June 1916 - 10 June 1944 at sea - South Pacific) USA [Online]
Stang, Henry John (25 July 1887 - 29 September 1918 France) USA [Online]
Stang, Vernon Joseph (9 April 1933 - 26 October 1960 Training) USA [Online]
Steinbrecher, Henry (10 September 1890 - 17 October 1918 France) USA [Online]
Steinmiller, Harry (23 November 1920 - 10 April 1945 Germany) USA [Online]
Stroh, Henry (2 December 1893 - 1 December 1918 France) USA [Online]
Suppes, George (11 April 1896 - 26 September 1918 France) USA [Online]
Troudt, Nick (7 November 1886 - 30 November 1918 France) USA [Online]
Ullman, Martin Frank (21 March 1920 - 27 December 1943 Italy) Canada [Online]
Urban, Robert Lee (23 November 1948 - 8 October 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Varner, Paul Nathan (5 July 1984 - 29 April 2005 accident) USA [Online]
Wagner, Robert Alfred (4 May 1948 - 16 May 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Walker, Michael Allen (11 October 1948 - 18 Juy 1970 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Walters, Gerald LeRoy (28 June 1945 - 30 June 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Wasinger, Richard Celestine (30 March 1932 - 7 November 1950 North Korea) USA [Online]
Webber, Charles Henry (11 October 1923 - 8 December 1944 France) USA [Online]
Weigel, Albert Theodore (3 January 1917 - 1 December 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Weigel, Clarence Eugene (19 January 1921 - 6 January 1945 Papua New Guinea) USA [Online]
Weigel, Daniel R. (17 February 1922 - 24 October 1944 South China Sea) USA [Online]
Weigel, Joseph A. (13 December 1931 - 5 November 1955 Japan) USA [Online]
Weigel, Linus Peter (27 October 1920 - 4 March 1944 Germany) USA [Online]
Weigel, Robert P. (17 March 1921 - 24 October 1944 Philippines) USA
Wertz, Eldore William (19 February 1919 - 30 September 1944 France) USA [Online]
Windholz, Julius John (22 October 1920 - 26 May 1944 Italy) USA [Online]
Winter, Carl J. Jr. (3 December 1942 - 23 November 1968 Vietnam) USA [Online]
Young, Robert Elmer (14 october 1920 - 1 August 1943 Romania) USA [Online]
Zechman, David (26 February 1924 - 13 August 1943 Solomon Islands) USA [Online]
Zimmerman, George Joseph (22 July 1919 - 13 August 1944 France) USA [Online]
Zwitzig, George J. (10 March 1897 - 24 September 1918 accident) USA [Online]
- FindAGrave
- Weigel, Lawrence. "Volga-German Traditions: Those Who Died for their Country." Ellis County Star (4 February 1982): 4.
US Marine Corps Memorial near Washington, D.C.
Statue depicts the raising of the American flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Source: Washington DC Tour Guide.