Cpl. Robert M. Spieker

I. D. No. 37761939

 

I was born Jan. 22, 1924.

I attended school at St. Johns in Petersburg, Nebraska through the 9th grade.

I then helped Dad farm until I was drafted into the Army.

I was called up December 1944 but I had to stay home to get the crops out.

In January I got notice as an A1 and had to go.

January I was to go to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  Two bus loads went.

From there we went to Camp Hood Texas, assigned to 152nd Infantry, Battalion Company D.

In June, we got a 9-day leave to go home before we went overseas.

After 9 days I reported back to Leavenworth, Kansas, and from there we shipped out to Fort Ord, California. Two days later we were moved to Camp Anza, California for 3 or 4 days, then to Los Angeles, California and from there to board ship the USS Elmore. Within an hour we were out in the Pacific going to Pearl Harbor, where we joined 8 other ships, making a convoy with 3 in front, 3 in the middle and 3 behind. It took 28 days going over to Leyte and Philippines.

In Leyte I helped load ships on the Anobong Harbor for 6 months or more. Then I was shipped from there to Guam and assigned to 315th Bomb Wing of the 20th Air Force. This was B29 aircraft MP Company.  I was assigned to military police duty until I came home on October 12, 1946 from overseas on the E. W. Eberley ship to Los Angeles, California. I was discharged at Camp Beale in California in November 1946. 

After that I farmed. I am now 89 as of Jan. 22, 2013 and still farming with the help of my boys Jim and Cary.

I got married 1953 to Laura Mae Sehi of St. John's Church, Clearwater, Nebraska.

We have 11 children, 30 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and will be married 60 years Sept. 15, 2013.