Lehner, Will

Lehner (b.1921) served in the Naval Reserves from 1938 to 1941 in the Navy from 1941 to 1946.

He was stationed aboard the USS Ward, from its recommissioning in 1941 through twenty-six engagements and its sinking in 1944. After the war, Lehner married in 1946, graduated from the Dunwoody Industrial Institute (Minnesota) in 1947, became a printer and linotype operator, and worked for a year with the Dakota County Tribune in Farmington (Minnesota). He worked for over thirty-two years at the Worth Manufacturing Company in Stevens Point (Wisconsin) and retired in 1986.

From the description of Oral history interview with Will S. Lehner, [videorecording], 2002. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 700942576