Virgil Wenger

Birthplace: Powhattan, KS

Branch of Service: Army

Unit: 8th Army

Theater of Operation: Pacific

Enlisted / Commissioned: Mar 1, 1946

Discharged: Aug 12, 1947

Honored By: Eisenhower Foundation

I Virgil Wenger was deferred to the farm of my Father’s during the war. I helped my neighbors and uncles do farming, butchering hogs and beef. At the end of the war I was drafted and sent to Japan during the occupation. I helped build the road from Tokyo down to Yokohoma. This was where I was stationed.