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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
Carl J. Weeldreyer was born on 19 August 1914 in Chancellor, South Dakota. Before the war he worked as an interior and exterior painter and farmhand. He attended grammar school in South Dakota (1920–1928). | |||
His Camp Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Center personal history card lists him as a captain (ASN 0452153; earlier entry 1st Lt., Cavalry) in Class 9, Section 5G, interrogation of prisoners of war (German). The card records Officer Candidate School at Fort Riley, Kansas (December 1941); duty with a cavalry replacement training center (January 1942); the 83rd Division Reconnaissance Troop (August 1942); and student status at MITC Camp Ritchie (June 1943). German language ratings on the card are speaking good, reading and writing fair. | His Camp Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Center personal history card lists him as a captain (ASN 0452153; earlier entry 1st Lt., Cavalry) in Class 9, Section 5G, interrogation of prisoners of war (German). The card records Officer Candidate School at Fort Riley, Kansas (December 1941); duty with a cavalry replacement training center (January 1942); the 83rd Division Reconnaissance Troop (August 1942); and student status at MITC Camp Ritchie (June 1943). German language ratings on the card are speaking good, reading and writing fair. | ||