WORLD WAR II SCRAPBOOK

Clara Klawetter of LaCrosse, wife of Jule Klawetter, served as a clerk on Selective Service Board No. 3. Clara kept a scrapbook during World War II of the men and women from this area: English Lake, Hamlet, Hanna, Kingsford Heights, Kingsbury, LaCrosse, LaPorte, Mill Creek, Otis, Stillwell, Union Mills, Walkerton, Wanatah, Wellsboro, and Westville. Photos were taken as the inductees prepared to board the bus. Clara collected newspaper clippings, letters, V-mail, and postcards throughout the war years. Nevin Sheely, great-nephew of Clara, donated the scrapbook to the LaCrosse Public Library. The following gallery shows some of the photos and articles from the 120 page scrapbook.

: Ken Sommerville, LaCrosse

: Frank Machler, Jack Wiess, Willis Rosenbaum, Frederick Meyers, LaCrosse.

: Charles Meyers, LaCrosse

: Lowell Bucher and Marion Meyers, LaCrosse

: Charles and William Simpkins, LaCrosse

: Fred Volkee, LaCrosse

: Frank G. Trinosky, LaCrosse

: Don Jessup

: John T. Phegley, LaCrosse

: Inducted August 3, 1942

: Harold Mockler

: LaVerne Meiss, LaCrosse

: Kenneth Sheely, LaCrosse

: Inducted December 3, 1942

: John and Martin Zahn

: Clemouth Garvey, Garland Magers, LaCrosse; Edward Sikora, English Lake

: Arvine Newman

: Wallace Bucher, Charles Wright, Garland Wilson, LaCrosse; Harris Mockler. The 11th man might have been Joe Pier.

: Delbert L. Swartzell, LaCrosse

: Don Knapp, LaCrosse

: Rowley Sheely, LaCrosse

: James DeHaven, LaCrosse

: Dale Knope, LaCrosse

: Russell, Chauncey “Bud”, and Clyde Bruder, LaCrosse

: Ethel Conrad, LaCrosse

: Betty Stonecipher, LaCrosse

: Wayne Sheely, LaCrosse

: Eugene Stoller, LaCrosse

: Lester Heinold, LaCrosse

: William Earle, LaCrosse

: Entered service November 14, 1942

: Frank Machler, LaCrosse

: Inducted January 19, 1943

: Charles Meyers, LaCrosse

: Jewel Jackson Babcock, LaCrosse

: Entered service February 25, 1943 – Names Unknown

: Keith Knapp and Herbert Swartzell, LaCrosse

: Inducted June 10, 1943

: Army & Navy Group – Entered Service July 13, 1943

: Donald Lawrence and Melvin Benham, LaCrosse

: Entered service June 12, 1944 – Names Unknown

: Entered service July 21, 1944 – Names Unknown

: Cecil Fay Bell, LaCrosse

: Kenneth Sommerville, LaCrosse

: Charles Hall, Louis Uridel, LaCrosse

: Harland Shireman, Henry Germann, Ralph Fritz, LaCrosse

: Burnell Aigner, John Gorski, Maurice Abbott, Aaron Peterson, LaCrosse

: Chauncey Bruder, Wyvil Flanagan, Leroy Coleman, and William Enselman, LaCrosse

: Leroy Wimer, LaCrosse

: Eugene Stoller, LaCrosse

: Grant Hayes, Melvin Riehle, and Roger Foltz, LaCrosse

: Lewis Lord, LaCrosse

: Jesse Swing, Fred Volkee, Charles Shireman, LaCrosse

: Harold Wilson, LaCrosse

: Harold Butz, LaCrosse

: Kenneth J. Knope, LaCrosse

: Omar H. Krueger, William R. Stotts, John J. Gorski, LaCrosse

: Entered service April 9, 1945

: Personnel of Local Draft Board Given Testimonial Dinner – Clara Klawetter, LaCrosse, clerk

: LaPorte and LaCrosse Draft Boards Announce Plans

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