Private Everleigh B. Ehrmann, Jr., the son of Everleigh (1897-1989) and Mable Ehrmann of Lackawanna, New York, was born on February 10, 1924, and enlisted in the United States Army on April 4, 1943. He attended the Army Specialized Training Program at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, before transferring to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in the spring of 1944, where he became a member of Company I of the 328th Infantry Regiment. That June, he transferred the 82nd Portable Surgical Hospital unit, then training for Pacific combat at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Everleigh B. Ehrmann died in Mount Clemens, Michigan, on August 19, 2011.
From the guide to the Everleigh Ehrmann, Jr. letters, Ehrmann, Everleigh, Jr. letters, 1943-1944, 1944, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
