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1ST LT RALPH EUGENE DEWEESE
(Photo courtesy John West, click photo to enlarge)

   Grave marker for 1xt Lt. Ralph E. "Bud" DeWeese Platoon Leader, 1st Platoon, G Company, in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa

1st Lieutenant Ralph E. DeWeese, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division was killed in action at Thornse Molen, Holland on 23 September 1944.

   The hand-drawn grave site map (above, right) depicts the location of five field graves in the vicinity of the Torensche Molen (Mill).  Site 3 (circled) is the location of the initial grave for Lt. DeWeese.
   On 18 July 1945, he was re-buried in the Margraten U. S. War Cemetery Netherlands, in grave KK-9-222. 
   When the Margraten American Cemetery was opening, his family elected to repatriate his remains and he now rests in Rose Hill Cemetery, Shenandoah, Iowa

   The following appears in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa book, page 281. In the cemetery, Second Addition.

   Block 12 Lot 7 - Ralph Eugene DeWeese, born 7 July 1918 Page County, IA, died 23 Sep 1944 Holland, [at age[ 26y 2m 16d, WWII 1st Lieut. Iowa 508 PRCHT Inf 82 ABN Div; father Homer H. DeWeese mother Mabel Natalee Albers.

Torensche Molen as it appeared in 1911

Click here to see mill location on modern map (note close proximity, less than 1 mile) to German border)