Ahrendt, William Lewis

Name and Rank, Shipfitter Third Class William Lewis Ahrendt.

Unit/placed, USS Maddox (DD-62 was KIA2) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

William was born on 25 April, 1922 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio .

Father, Fred August Charles Ahrendt.

Born in Germany.

Mother, Hazel (Kirk) Ahrendt.

Sisters, Laura, Mildred Emilia and Constance Ahrendt.

Brothers, Ewald, Kenneth C. and August Ahrendt.

William entered the Service from Ohio with service number # 6154474.

William L. Ahrendt rank/duty was a Shipfitter Third Class (Destroyer )onboard the USS Maddox (DD-622) in the United States Naval Reserve.

William was KIA when the ship was on a Submarine Patrol and was Attacked and Sunk by an German Junker Ju-88 of the Sicily Coast, on July 10, 1943, and he is honored with the Purple Heart, Good Combat Medal, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

William L. Ahrendt is mentioned/buried at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial, Nettuno, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy.
Tablets of the Missing.

Thanks to http://www.ussmaddox.org/

https://wrecksite.eu/peopleView.aspx?169725

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L56Z-2YF

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano

Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com