Walter F. Goodman, Jr.

Walter F. Goodman, Jr.
Personal details
Born	San Francisco, California
Nativity	United States
Religion	Protestant
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
Arm / service	Field Artillery
ASN	0519190
Rank	Second Lieutenant
Camp Ritchie	Class 9 (21 June – 18 August 1943)
Section	7

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Walter F. Goodman Jr. was a United States Army Field Artillery officer who trained at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, in Class 9 and served in North Africa and Italy.

Biography

Walter F. Goodman Jr. was born in San Francisco, California. He studied history and languages at Texas A&M University and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery on 6 May 1943 after Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

His first assignment after OCS was a military-intelligence course at Camp Ritchie (Class 9), covering Allied and German force structures and the German political situation. He then served about two and a half years in North Africa and Italy, including civil-affairs schooling at Tizi Ouzou, before returning to the United States.

Goodman later completed Command and General Staff College coursework and remained associated with Army civil-affairs and military-intelligence communities; he was inducted into the Artillery Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame (2020 materials in the packet).

Research notes

• 9/26/1921-?
• birth_place cleaned from corrupted “San Francisco, Calif. In January 1944”. Exact death date not established from packet skim—leave death fields unless already set.

Technical record

Field	Imported value
Class_ASN	519190
Class_Name	GOODMAN, Walter F.
match_method	asn_exact_name_exact
row_source	both

Timeline

• Born in San Francisco, California.
• 6 May 1943 — Commissioned second lieutenant, Field Artillery, Fort Sill OCS.
• 1943 — Military intelligence course at Camp Ritchie (Class 9).
• 1943–1946 — Service in North Africa and Italy (civil affairs / intelligence path).

Sources

• RB Archive Artillery OCS Hall of Fame / related PDF packet materials
• RB Archive, Walter F. Goodman Jr., autobiographical memoir excerpt “The War Years 1943–1946”
• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2022-12-23 (1 post)