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Re: Capt.Wallace Emmer 354th Fighter Group
Remembering, with sadness Nov. 18, 1944. Capt. Wallace N. Emmer, USAAF had been shot down on 9 Aug and was a kriegegefange in a POW camp in Germany. On Nov. 18th, Bud's younger brother, Ray, was with his unit in Germany, just a short distance inside the German-Belgian border in the woods west of the town of Udenbreth.
According to his buddy & trenchmate, William B. Williams, Ray was outside the trench when German mortar shells descended on their 30-cal machine gun position. Ray was hit by shrapnel as a fragment pierced his left thigh. Williams hauled him back into the trench but Ray only gave a brief groan and was gone....in those dark hours in enemy territory....on his brother, Bud's, birthday. A letter from my grandmother to my uncle relayed the word to him while he was also in the air service and the tragedy was confirmed.....
Both boys would be "brought home" later and buried in the family plot in St. Louis.....the parents, Viv and Blanche Emmer lost both of their boys in WWII.......they are still dearly missed by their family.
Tripp
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