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PRIVATE
WILLIAM C. HETLER was born on March 22, 1922 in Pennsylvania to Clarence and
Nellie Hetler. In 1930 the Hetler family lived on Lackawanna Road in
Clifton Township, Lackawanna County PA, where Clarence Hetler was
employed in a railroad car maintenance shop. The
Hetler family moved to the Philadelphia area at some point after the
1930 census was taken.
A
high school graduate, William Hetler was inducted into the United
States Army at Philadelphia PA on January 16, 1943. He was sent overseas to the Pacific
Theater,
with a radar unit, the 596th Signal Air Warning Battalion, and saw duty
on New Britain and Biak. Private Hetler died
from causes not related to combat during World War II on July 4, 1944.
William
Hetler was brought home to New Jersey in 1948 aboard the
USAT
George W.G. Boyce.
He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
in Arlington, Virginia. William Hetler was survived by his father, Clarence
Hetler, of 819 Greenwood Avenue, Gloucester City NJ.
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