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Arthur John “Art” Wickman

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Arthur John “Art” Wickman Veteran

Birth
Greenland, Ontonagon County, Michigan, USA
Death
21 Jul 1972 (aged 56)
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Livonia, Wayne County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
Garden of Victory Section 546, plot #1
Memorial ID
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Arthur John Waldemar Wickman was born to Finnish immigrants in the copper mining range of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He graduated from Greenland Township High School (later known as Mass City H.S.). He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930's, where he received first aid training and helped replant some Upper Peninsula forests decimated by the lumber industry.
As a Private during WWII he was a truck driver and litter bearer in Company C 3rd Medical Battalion, Third Infantry Division, seeing action in Tunisia, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge), and Central Europe. He was injured in a jeep accident near Fonduc, North Africa, 31 March 1943. He served from 26 November 1941 to 17 October 1945.
Arthur John Waldemar Wickman was born to Finnish immigrants in the copper mining range of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He graduated from Greenland Township High School (later known as Mass City H.S.). He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930's, where he received first aid training and helped replant some Upper Peninsula forests decimated by the lumber industry.
As a Private during WWII he was a truck driver and litter bearer in Company C 3rd Medical Battalion, Third Infantry Division, seeing action in Tunisia, Rome-Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge), and Central Europe. He was injured in a jeep accident near Fonduc, North Africa, 31 March 1943. He served from 26 November 1941 to 17 October 1945.


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