Born: 24 Jul 1913 Died: 11 Apr 2004 Service: U.S. Army WW II Burial:Trinity Lutheran Plot: N 10 15
Deike, Frederick Stanley
Born: 15 Oct 1937 Died: 11 Aug 1986 Service: PFC. U.S. Army Korea Burial:Trinity Lutheran Plot: N 09 03
Deike, Kenneth Lee
Born: 22 Dec 1949 Died: 2 Feb 2016 Service: U.S. Navy Vietnam Burial:Not stated / Unknown
After graduation, he joined the United States Navy, where he served aboard the USS Valley Forge. He received the Vietnam Service Medal with a Bronze Star and the National Defense Service Medal. He was honorably discharged in 1969 and remained as a reservist until 1974.
Deike, Victor
Born: 30 Jan 1922 Died: 28 Mar 2002 Service: 10th Mountain Division U.S. Army WW II Italy, Aleutian Islands Burial:Trinity Lutheran Plot: N 04 05
Deiter, Chester Dwaine
Born: 21 Jan 1924 Died: 4 Jun 2011 Service: U.S. Army Air Corps WW II Italy; 3 years Burial:Noxville Cemetery
Delcamp, Burton Lorenzo
Born: 28 Jul 1927 Died: 5 Dec 2008 Service: Army Air Corps WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 028 011
Fighting Man
Pvt. Victor Deike, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Deike of Hye, who left on Tuesday after spending a 20 day furlough at home. He spent five months in the Aleutians with U. S. invasion forces.
Born: 7 Apr 1919 Died: 21 Nov 1986 Service: Chief Petty Officer U.S. Navy WW II Korea served 12 Nov 1937 - 30 Nov 1967 Burial:Sunset Memorial Park
DeLoof, Richard Bruce "Rick"
Born: 7 Jan 1954 Died: 7 Jul 2010 Service: Petty Officer 2nd C; U.S. Navy entered 29 Jun 1972 Burial:St. Mary's Memorial Garden Cemetery Plot: M2 WSD A 201
He is serving with the US Navy in the waters of the Pacific, Chief Petty Officer has over 8 years in the military.
DeLorey, Morris Frederick
Born: 7 Jan 1913 Died: 4 Sep 1990 Service: U.S. Army WW II; served 26 May 1942 - 24 Sep 1945 Burial:Noxville Cemetery
Delz, Edgar C. "Ed"
Born: 15 Oct 1907 Died: 11 Jun 1981 Service: U.S. Army WW II, served 25 Jan 1943 - 2 Oct 1945 Burial:Eckert Community Cemetery Plot: Row 1
Delz, Elmer Marl "Marl"
Born: 2 Nov 1929 Died: 1 Oct 1998 Service: U.S. Marine Corps Korea Burial:Bluffton Cemetery
His decorations included battle and campaign medals for Naples-Foggia, Rome-Arno, the EAME Campaign Medal with two Bronze Stars, the Asiatic--Pacific Campaign Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 2 p. 80
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 2 p. 101
Born: 16 Jun 1925 Died: 17 Feb 1982 Service: U.S. Navy WW II, discharge 8 May 1946 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 6 004 026
Delz, William Franklin
Born: 6 Jul 1929 Died: 2 Feb 2018 Service: U.S. Navy Korean Conflict Burial:Eckert Community Cemetery
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 19
Dembach, Alfred Henry
Born: 10 Sep 1917 Died: 4 Oct 2006 Service: SFC U.S. Army WW II Korea Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 3 006 050
Deming, Alice (Webster)
Born: 27 Mar 1921 Died: 5 Nov 1995 Service: U.S. Marine Corps Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 022 049
Deming, Robert Treat, Chaplin
Born: 20 Dec 1922 Died: 17 May 2008 Service: Lt. Col. "Ret." U.S. Air Force WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 022 049
Demuth, Eugene
Born: 5 Sep 1933 Died: 2 Apr 2023 Service: U.S. Navy Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Denny, LaDell
Born: 7 Jul 1913 Died: 12 Jul 2005 Service: Cpl U.S. Army Air Force WW II, discharge 13 Feb 1946 Burial:Greenoaks Memorial Park
Dent, Richard E.
Born: 6 Dec 1915 Died: 18 Jun 1990 Service: PFC U.S. Army WW II Burial:Fayetteville National Cemetery Plot: Section 21 Site 17C
U.S. Navy
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 4 p. 303
Denton, Curtis Russell
Born: 21 Feb 1935 Died: 5 Nov 2021 Service: Master Sergeant U.S. Air Force; served 1955 - 31 Jan 1977 Burial:Not stated / Unknown
DeSoto, Paul Whitney
Born: 8 Apr 1912 Died: 9 Dec 1982 Service: PFC U.S. Army Air Force WW II Burial:Port Lavaca Cemetery
Detjen, Albert Henry "Al"
Born: 27 Oct 1922 Died: 23 Oct 2012 Service: Staff Sgt. U.S. Army Air Corps WW II discharge 9 Oct 1945, enlisted 28 Mar 1946; SMSgt. (Ret.) U.S. Air Force Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 5, p. 159
Detjen served in the Army Air Corps, attached to Navy on Anti-Submarine warfare.
Al proudly served his country in the United States Air Force from 1940-1961.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 2 p.111
Detjen, Henry C.
Born: 12 Jun 1875 Died: 3 Feb 1934 Service: BGLR 1 Wisc Inf NG; served 30 Jun 1916 - 19 Jan 1917 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: E, 09, 22
Deutsch, Walter Raymond
Born: 28 Jul 1918 Died: 12 Oct 2002 Service: U.S. Army WW II, served 18 Mar 1943 - 27 Feb 1946 Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Born: 28 Dec 1926 Died: 31 Jan 2017 Service: MSGT U.S. Army WW II; 1st Sgt. U.S. Air Force Korean War, served 23 Jan 1946 - 3 Oct 1952 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
Dickie, Jess Carson, III
Born: 14 Sep 1928 Died: 21 Nov 2011 Service: Lieutenant U.S. Navy Korean War, served 1951 - 1954 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 8 003 043
Dickey was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Army, served on Okinawa and attained rank of master sergeant. After the war, Dickey transferred to the U.S. Air Force and served as first sergeant of the 657th Air Force Band where he played baritone and French horn.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 4 p. 79
Die, John Desmond
Born: 24 Dec 1923 Died: 17 Jan 1969 Service: U.S. Army WW II Burial:Merryville Cemetery
Diehl, Robert Madison
Born: 15 Jan 1889 Died: 14 Dec 1958 Service: PFC, Company M, 359 Infantry, 90 Division U.S. Army WW I; served 23 Feb 1918 - 26 May 1919 Burial:Bagdad Cemetery
Dietel, Frederick Eby "Freddie"
Born: 25 Aug 1923 Died: 29 Aug 2014 Service: Staff Sgt. U.S. Army WW II Pacific, served 18 Oct 1944 - 20 Jul 1946 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 265 CNQ
Dietel was a member of Sixth Infantry Division and served in the Pacific Theatre on Bataan, Corregidor and Northern Luzon.
Dietel was a squad leader in the 1st Infantry in the Liberation of the Phillipines and the Occupation of Korea.
Fred served his country as a Staff Sergeant of the Sixth Infantry Division during the Pacific Theatre from 1944-1945. He was honored by his family with a plaque at the Nimitz Museum Wall of Memories for his service.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 2
Dietel, William, Jr.
Born: 24 Oct 1919 Died: 28 Jul 1943 Service: First Lieutenant U.S.Army Air Forces, 546th Bomber Squadron, 384th Bomber Group, Heavy WW II; KIA Europe; Air Medal,Purple Heart Burial:Netherlands American Cemetery Plot: P Row 22 Grave 11
Born: 6 Feb 1896 Died: 19 Jan 1926 Service: Sgt 330 FLD RMT Sq QMC WW I, discharge 17 Apr 1919 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: D, 12, 11
Lt. William Dietel, Jr. Reported Killed In Action In Europe As Of July 28th.
The heart breaking report of the death of First Lt. William Dietel, Jr. age 23, son of Editor and Mrs. William Dietel of the Radio Post was received by telegram from the U. S. War Department at Washington on Thursday morning. Lt. Dietel had previously been reported as missing in action over Holland since July 28. He was a flight commander and pilot of the B-17 four-motor heavy bomber which he and his crew had affectionately named "Sky Queen".
A letter confirming the telegram was received by the parents on Tuesday morning from J. A. Ulio, the Adjutant General of the U. S. War Department of Washington, D. C. The telegram last Thursday read as follows: "Report received from the German Government through the International Red Cross states your son, First Lt. William Dietel, Jr., who was previously reported missing in action on July 28 in European area, was killed on that day."
According to press dispatches which appeared in July 29th. issues in daily newspapers, Flying Fortress raids to within 80 miles of Berlin accounted for a loss of 23 of the big ships on that day.(July 28th.)
Several weeks ago he and his crew had been awarded the Air Medal for operations presumably over the European mainland.
Lt. Dietel enlisted in the U. S. Air Forces, his choice of service for his country, in the latter part of January 1942. He received his training at Kelly Field, Corsicana, Sherman and Houston, being commissioned a Second Lt. on the day he received his wings, October 9, at Ellington Field. From Houston, he was sent to four motor heavy bombing school at Sebring, near Miami Florida.After completing that he was assigned to Salt Lake City Utah, from where he was subsequently stationed at Boise, Idaho, Wendover Field, Utah and other places in the West. He was assigned a crew at Wendover, where he was also promoted to First Lt. and Flight Commander.
He married on April 18th of this year, to Miss Maurine Mathis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mathis of Sherman.
Surviving Lt. Dietel are his grief stricken parents, his sisters: Erna Lee of San Antonio, and Alma, Mrs. Lt. F. J. Jung of Baltimore; his brothers: Norman, Harold and Frederick; his wife of Sherman; a grandmother, Mrs. Herman E. Dietel of New Braunfels; a large number of relatives and a host of friends who mourn his sacrifice.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 156
Dietrich, Louis Otto, Jr.
Born: 17 Dec 1953 Died: 22 Jun 2014 Service: U.S. Air Force Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 3 002 047
Dietrich, Louis Otto, Sr.
Born: 9 Nov 1931 Died: 12 Dec 2017 Service: U.S. Army Korean War, discharge 21 Feb 1956 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery
Dietrich, Raymond Arthur "Ray"
Born: 1 Oct 1927 Died: 5 Sep 2018 Service: Staff Sergeant U.S. Air Force Korean War Burial:Greenwood Cemetery
Dietrich served his country in the Army during the Korean War. He worked as a welder in aircraft construction.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 345
Dietz, Arthur
Born: 22 Jul 1891 Died: 19 Jun 1966 Service: U.S. Army WW I, discharge 29 May 1919 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 132 NCQ
Dietz, Edwin Carl
Born: 29 Jun 1922 Died: 5 Jun 2003 Service: Pvt. U.S. Army Air Corps WW II, enlisted 22 Sep 1942; U.S. Army Reserves, discharge 4 Dec 1945 Burial:Martindale Cemetery
Dietz, Elgin Max Conrad
Born: 25 Feb 1921 Died: 24 Jun 2006 Service: 1st. Lt. U.S. Marine Corps WW II Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 132 NEQ
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 82
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 4 p. 218
Dietz was a flight instructor at Pensacola, Florida. A transport pilot in the South Pacific, Japan, and China. He was stationed at Cherry Point, North Carolina.
Elgin M. Dietz of Fredericksburg won his Navy Wings of Gold and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve last week following completion of the prescribed flight training course at the Naval Air Training Center, Pensacola, Fla. the Annapolis of the Air.
Having been designated a Naval Aviator Lieutenant Dietz will go on active duty at one of the Navy's air operational training centers before being assigned to a combat zone.
Lt. Dietz is a graduate of Fredericksburg High School, 1940. He entered Naval training for a pilot's rating last year and received his commission at Pensacola on October 26. He will continue as an instructor at Pensacola for several months. Prior to his enlistment in the Naval Air Corps on Sept. 7, 1942 he was employed in the Gillespie county AAA office.
Dietz, Gustav "Gus"
Born: 12 Aug 1933 Died: 10 Feb 2020 Service: U.S. Army; served 1956 - 1957 Burial:Not stated / Unknown
Dietz, Henry, Sr.
Born: 25 Dec 1838 Died: 31 Aug 1906 Service: CSA, enter 1 May 1862 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: D, 07, 27
Dietz, Johannes Wilhelm "John", Sr.
Born: 17 Oct 1825 Died: 14 Jul 1899 Service: Pvt. Co. No. 1, Gillespie County, 3rd Frontier District TST 1864 Burial:St. Mary's Garden Cemetery Plot: SMG B 02 023
Texas Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865
Name: Henry Dietz
Military Service: 1862
Event type: military service
Event year: 1862
age: 23
Military Unit: 8th Taylor's Battalion Cavalry / Taylor's Battalion Mounted Rifles
Affiliate: Complied Service
Publication Title: Records of Confederate Solders Who Served in Organization From State Of Texas
United State, Civil War Soldiers index 1861-1865 Texas
Name: Henry Dietz
Event type: Military Service
Military: Private
Rank beginning / Rank ending: Private
Military Side: Confederate
State: Texas
Unit: 8th Taylor's Battalion
Company: C
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 194
Dietz, Kenneth Ray
Born: 11 May 1947 Died: 29 Apr 2017 Service: U.S. Army; served 3 years Burial:Greenwood Cemetery
Dietz, Marvin Otto
Born: 10 Mar 1925 Died: 31 Mar 2010 Service: PVT. U.S. Army WW II, served 27 Feb 1945 - 17 Oct 1946 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 132 CSQ
Dietz, Otto Emil
Born: 5 Feb 1897 Died: 1 May 1965 Service: Pvt 31 Co 165 Depot Brigade, U.S. Army WW I, discharge 14 Jan 1919 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: H, 21, 20
At El Paso
Pvt. Marvin Dietz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dietz, who was inducted into the service on February 26, 1945. He was stationed at Camp Hood, Texas; in Washington State and is at present in the medical corps of the William Bowmann Hospital, El Paso, Texas. He is a 1944 graduate of FHS.
Dietz was in the Medical Corps and served in Germany, in the 98th. General hospital, Munich Germany.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 189
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 83
Dilley, Madeline Lydia Sophia (Houy)
Born: 3 Nov 1920 Died: 14 Nov 2009 Service: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, WW II; England, France, Germany, served Dec 1942 - 5 Jan 1946 Burial:Der Stadt Friedhof Plot: J, 18, 19
Dittmar, Albert Douglas
Born: 19 Oct 1925 Died: 10 Jun 2003 Service: U.S. Army WW II, served 27 Feb 1945 - 3 Dec 1946 Burial:Dittmar Cemetery
Dittmar, Albert John
Born: 28 Apr 1887 Died: 1 Jun 1983 Service: PFC U.S. Army WW I, discharge 28 May 1919 Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 146 SEQ
Daughter of Arnold Houy Family is enroute overseas at last word. She has been in the service of her Country since December 1942. Lt. Houy graduated from Selma Infirmary School of Nursing in Austin shortly before entering the US Army.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 2 p. 285
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 3 p. 63
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 1 p. 58
Born: 3 Mar 1916 Died: 24 Feb 1993 Service: Lt. j.g. U.S. Navy WW II; served 26 Jul 1943 - 15 Mar 1946 Burial:Lakeview Memorial Gardens
Dittmar, Donald Dean "Don"
Born: 29 Mar 1934 Died: 5 Sep 1991 Service: U.S. Air Force Burial:Greenwood Cemetery Plot: 7 011 082
Dittmar was inducted into the Army Air Force in April of 1942 at Dodd Field, San Antonio, Texas. Basic training at Shepard Field in Wichita Falls, Texas. Went to Air Technical Training School near Hollywood, California, completed sheetmetal repair training. Assigned to Bear Field, Indiana for assignment to the 337th MR&R Sq. (Mobil repair and reclamation Squadron). Sent to Syracuse Air Base in Syracuse, New York for further training and for an overseas assignment. Sailed to England in a small passenger ship. Because of a possible German Submarine attack we were in a guarded convoy. We traveled a rough North Sea. The 337th MR &R was assigned to the "Troop Carrier Command". Assigned to the "C47 Pathfinder Squadron." Called Pathfinder because as a rule they took the first troops into combat. I was stationed at Nottingham, England. Assigned with us were Para-troopers and Glider troops. Para-troopers parachuted into combat from C47 airplanes and Glider troops were pulled into combat in gliders by C47 airplanes, each plane pulled 2 gliders and turned them loose at drop sites. We were in charge of all aircraft sheet metal repairs. Rank of Master Sergeant. After "V E DAY", assigned to France, Belgium, and Bremmerhaven, Germany. Was discharged at Camp Fannin, Texas, 2 months less than 4 years of service.
Source: Master Index of Veterans at the Gillespie Co. Courthouse, Book 2, p. 353
Dittmar was inducted into the US Navy on July 26, 1943. Stationed at the Naval Training Station in San Diego, CA. and also received his Officers Commission there. After a short training session at the University of Arizona in Tucson, he reported for duty at Mayport Section Base in Florida and served on mine sweepers and escort ships on the East Coast. Reported to Naval Gunnery School at Jacksonville Naval Air Station for three months. In June of 1944, he was sent back to the West Coast for assignment. Received orders to report to the U S Pacific Fleet Air Force, CASU 53, San Francisco, CA.. Assigned to Holtville Naval Air Station in the Imperial Valley Ca. Here he spent the remainder of his service in the Navy training air craft carrier pilots in firing missiles on water targets at Slaton Sea and on ground targets in the desert. Upon completion of the training, the squadron of pilots were given a party and sent to join an air craft carrier for sea duty and a new squadron would report for duty. Since the California desert was extremely hot, work would be performed at night as the airplanes could not be refueled during the day time hours. During this tour of duty Navy housing consisted of fruit pickers shacks without air conditioning. Date of discharge March 15, 1946 as a Lieutenant Junior Grade.
Born: 5 Apr 1925 Died: 20 Aug 2006 Service: U.S. Army WW II, enlisted 27 Mar 1945 Burial:Trinity Lutheran
Dittmar, Louise Emma
Born: 3 May 1914 Died: 18 Mar 1998 Service: LT Col (Nurse) U.S. Air Force WW II, served Oct 1940 - 1965 Burial:Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Plot: Section 23 Site 505
With the Fifth Army Second Lt. Louise M. Dittmar, daughter of Mrs. John Dittmar, Doss, staff nurse with an evacuation hospital, has served on the Allied Fifth Army's Anzio beach head in Italy since February 9, before any other field or evacuation hospital has been set up on the beachhead. The first six weeks on the beachhead Lt. Dittmar was exposed to greater danger than at any other time in her overseas career, but by now she has become accustomed to constant bombing and shelling and accepts these conditions calmly. There are four nurses in every pyramidal tent. The floor of each tent is about two feet below ground level, and each nurse has a foxhole. There are cots, electric lights and room to move around. Lt. Dittmar was on the Anzio beach on that morning early during the invasion when a German self-propelled gun sneaked close to the American lines and shelled the 5th Army Evacuation Hospital, killing five patients and wounding twelve. None of the nurses was jittery, a correspondent reported although they had good reason to be after a night's shelling and air raid alerts. Throughout most of the night they had heard the whistle of 170mm shells going over their tents enroute to the harbor. Most of the nurses decided to pass the night in foxholes beneath their cots, and that was what kept intact the hospital's remarkable record of no casualties among the personnel. Chief Nurse Shoemaker awoke at 4 a. m., to find her tent sieved with holes from bursts that landed ten yards to either side . A small chunk of red-hot-shrapnel tore through a bedroll and four thicknesses of blankets on her cot and dropped into a foxhole, striking her helmet. Miss Shoemaker hurried to the stricken wards but found that Lt. Isabelle Huffman, assisted by 2nd Lt. Louis Dittmar, had everything under control.War in Europe was in full progress when I graduated from nurses training. Entered service as a 2nd Lieutenant in October of 1940 at Ft. Sill, OK. Retired as Lt. Colonel in 1965 from Amarillo, Texas, AFB. Overseas assignments included service with the 45th General Hospital in Oran, Africa and the 15th Evacuation Hospital on Anzio, Italy. Since it was an Evacuation Hospital we followed the troops from Anzio to Florence, Italy, where I left them because of illness.On Anzio Beachhead for 2 1/2 months and under constant fire nearly all the time. The Germans had a large gun in a cave in the mountains with a loud, shrill whistle. We name it "Whistling Pete", which they delighted using on us. The gun was located so they could look down and see us but we could not see them. One day in May one of our men got a good fix on them and Whistling Pete was no more!!! Most of my assignments after WW II were in the USA except for one in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1954 and one to Itaguke, Japan in 1960.
