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Herman Salinger
| Herman Salinger | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 December 1905 Saint Louis, Missouri |
| Died | 22 January 1983 |
| Nativity | United States |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch |  United States Army |
| Arm / service | Air Corps |
| ASN | 0913812 |
| Rank | Second Lieutenant |
| Camp Ritchie | Class 6 (13 March – 11 May 1943) |
| Section | 2 |
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Herman Salinger (23 December 1905 – 22 January 1983) was a Ritchie Boy (from United States) who trained at Camp Ritchie in class 6.
Biography
Herman Salinger was a Ritchie Boy. After a couple of years at Leland Stanford, teaching German and studying for an M.A. (1929) in Germanic languages, Herman spent two years divided between the Universities of Berlin and Cologne. During the four years Herman served as instructor, Ground School Headquarters., A.A.F. He has been a member of the Mod. since 1932 and more recently also of Modern Language Teachers of the Central West, and the Reserve Officers Assoc. Herman Salinger died January 22, 1983 at age 77. He was born on December 23, 1905 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was an American educator, writer, who was a Recipient Badge of Honor Poetry prize, 1942, Roanoke-Chowan (North Carolina) Poetry award, 1963. He finished his work at Yale for the Ph.D. in 1937, after teaching German at Princeton, 1932-35. Later he taught several years at the University of Wisconsin until he entered the Army Air Corps as 2nd Lieutenant in 1942. He stayed in until Jan. 14, 1946, and was promoted, Mar. 17, 1943, to 1st Lieutenant, and Oct. 11, 1944, to Captain, in the A.C. Flying School, Kelly Field, Tex. (1942), instructor and Cadet Tactical Officer, Ground Sch. (1942-43); Staff and faculty, Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, Md. (1943-45); G-2 Sec., 12th Army Group, Verdun, France and Wiesbaden, Germany; and G-2 Sec., Intelligence Operations, Seventh Army Headquarters, Augsburg and Heidelberg. He contributed to "Princeton Verse Between Two Wars," edited by Allen Tate. His translation of Heine's "Germany: A Winter's Tale," a book-length poem, came out in 1944 (L B Fischer, New York) and his many translations from French and German have appeared in Fantasy, Poet-Lore, and the New Mexico Ouarterly Review, 1939-47. In 1942 the Univ. of Wisconsin Press issued his "Index to the Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke " Many of his book reviews have appeared in Monatshefte and other journals, 1935-47, and articles on Heine, Grillparzer, Storm and Rilke in Modern Language Notes (June 1938, Apr. 1942); Monatshefte (May 1939, May 1941, Mar. 1940); and German Ouarterly (May 1940). For a year he was a contributor to and assoc. editor of The University of Kansas City Review, and from May 1946 to June 1947 Asst. of Foreign Languages and Literatures en the University.
Research notes
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Technical record
| Field | Imported value |
|---|---|
| Approx Age at Death | 78 |
| Class_ASN | 913812 |
| Class_Name | SALINGER, Herman |
| match_method | asn_exact_name_exact |
| row_source | both |
Sources
- Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
- 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 2022-12-29 (1 post)