Ewald "Wally" Blumenschein

Petty Officer Third Class/Radarman Third Class Navy

Branch of Service: Navy
Rank: Petty Officer Third Class/Radarman Third Class
Unit: Wing-69, U. S. Naval Air Station
Years of Service: 1950 – 1958
Date of Birth: 04/11/1931
Date of Death: 06/15/2015
Hometown: Paris, OH
Burial Location: Darby Twp: St. John's Lutheran
Monument Paver: No
Reserve Service: 1950 – 1958
Township (entering service): Paris
Township (current / at death): Paris
Church: St. John's Lutheran Church
School: Marysville High School
Record Authenticated: No

Biography

Church: St. John's Lutheran Church. School: Marysville High School. Serial #3321773; entered Naval Air Reserves, 10/16/1950; member of Wing-69, U. S. Naval Air Station, Columbus, Ohio; Enlisted Classification Record (dated 10/17/1950, transcription dated 09/25/1954) does not list active duty service; entered into Organized Reserves, 09/26/1954; honorably discharged 09/25/1958, Columbus, Ohio; not listed in HEROES FROM THE HEARTLAND (Claudia Robinson Bartow, 2004)

Source: Certificate of Honorable Discharge, Union Co. Recorder's Office, Vol. 9, p. 465; Enlisted Classification Record (transcription); The Journal-Tribune, 05/28/1952