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- Walter Linder was born September 8, 1919 in Woodhaven,
Queens in New York City. As a youngster he attended local
public school P.S. 97 and as a teenager Richmond Hill High School.
He was a popular individual and was an accomplished gymnast.
He loved dances at local churches and high school. After
graduating from high school he was employed by the American
Automobile Association (AAA) in Manhattan as a travel and vacation
planner. Before entering the army he met a Woodhaven girl,
Doris Ross. In February, 1941, at the age 21, he entered the
Army via the draft, supposedly for one year. He was the first son of
a draft board member in the New York area to enter the Army as noted
in New York papers. He was stationed at Camp Hulen, Texas in
the 69th Coast Artillery until the outbreak of war and they moved to
protect San Diego, California and the Naval base there.
- While in California he married his sweetheart, Doris Ross and
they had a son, Raymond Walter Linder, born in 1943. He
attained the rank of Sgt. with the 69th. In the Spring of 1944
he was transferred to the 103rd Division at Camp Howze, Texas as the
need for infantry replacements increased. He was a member of
3rd platoon, Co. L, 411th Regiment. Walter was deployed to
Marseille on the USS Monticello and entered combat in mid November
in the Vosges Mountains of Eastern France. He was killed in
action on November 23, 1944 near La Planchette in the vicinity of
St. Die, France. He was temporarily interred in the U. S.
Cemetery at Epinal in France until he could be returned to the U. S.
and interred with family in the civilian cemetery of Cypress Hills
in Brooklyn, New York City.
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