1917 - 1966
Iowa Staff Sergeant US Air Force
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Manning Monitor article------ 1944
AIR MEDAL Vertus Ewoldt Awarded D.F.C. An Eighth AAF Liberator Station, England. Staff Sergeant Vertus W. Ewoldt of Manning has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in aerial combat. S/Sgt. Ewoldt is a gunner on a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. He has made 31 bombing missions over Germany and enemy-occupied Europe. S/Sgt, Vertus Ewoldt In U. S. Santa Ana, Calif. S/Sgt Vertus W. Ewoldt, of Rt. 2, Manning, currently is assigned to the Army Air Forces redistribution station at I Santa Ana Army Air Base after completing 31 missions against the l enemy as gunner on a 8-17 Flying Fortress bomber of the 8th Air Force in the European theatre of operations.
S /Sgt. Ewoldt, who has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medial
with three Oak Leaf Clusters, entered the service March 3, 1943, and went overseas on
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Vertus William Ewoldt, 48, died Monday morning, September 12, 1966, at the Iowa Soldiers' Home in Marshalltown, where he had lived for the last three years. He had been ill for many years.
Military funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Ohde Funeral Home at Manning, with burial in the Manning Cemetery. Pastor Edward Heinicke, of Zion Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Mr. Ewoldt, son of William and Amanda (Asmus) Ewoldt, was born October 9, 1917, in Hayes Township, Crawford County. He attended rural schools and farmed at home.
On March 10, 1943, he enlisted in the Air Force, and flew 31 missions over Europe in a flying fortress. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.
Following his discharge from the service Mr. Ewoldt worked for the Heider Manufacturing Company and later, for the Western Inn, both at Carroll.
He is survived by a brother, Truman Ewoldt of Westside; and a sister, Mrs. Loretta Vinke, Manning. Preceding him in death were his parents and one brother, Gilbert, who was killed in World War II.