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MILITARY POLICEMEN Friday ended the film career of Wesley Howard Lundgren, New York singer who resembles Frank Sinatra. He was arrested in Hollywood as an army deserter on a set at M-G-M studios where he was placed under contract three months ago under the name of Wesley Howard.
[Star Tribune,
Minneapolis, MN, 26 Feb 1944, Sat, Page 6] |
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Movie Singer Is
Just a GI AWOL
LOS ANGELES- Feb. 25· Wesley .Howard .Lundgren, young
singer signed by a motion picture
studio (M-G-M) three months ago from a New York
nightclub; was arrested on a movie Set today by Army officials who charged him with · being absent without leave.
The ·Provost Marshal's office here
declared Lundgren had been absent without leave for· ten months from Camp .McCall,
N.C.
[San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, Sat, Feb 26, 1944, Page 7] |
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Grave marker for Wesley H.
Lundgren in Section 25, Block 61, Lot 23, Grave 1,
Resurrection Cemetery, Mendota Heights (Dakota
county), Minnesota.
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Wesley registered for the draft in
Los Angeles, CA on 30 June 1942 and was inducted
into the Army in that city on 5 October 1942.
Pvt Lundgren was AWOL and returned to
duty on 19 April 1943. As a consequence, he
was transferred from Hq 2nd to Company D.
He went AWOL again on 8 May 1943.This
time he was transferred to the 541st PIR, also
located at Camp Mackall, NC.
His final escapade must have occurred
immediately following this last transfer. |