Robinson is Missing

Telegram States He Was In France With Anti-Tank Division

In France with an anti-tank division since July, Private First Class Walter G. Robinson, 21, has been reported missing in action.

A telegram from Acting Adjutant General Dunlop this week notified Blair relatives that Pfc. Robinson has been missing since Nov. 24. He is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Robinson, Blair, and a former student at Blair high school.

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Prisoner Released

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Pfc. Walter G. Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Robinson of Blair, was among Nebraska soldiers, who were recently released from Nazi prison camps inside Germany. Pfc. Robinson, who joined the service on Febr. 17, 1943, spent over five months in a concentration camp after being captured on Nov. 24, 1944.

Pfc. Robinson, who was with an anti-tank company, lost 60 pounds while at the camp. Robinson said that, although the boys had very little meat, the Germans didn’t either, so no one resented the slim diet. They were fed what the prisoners termed “grass soup” which was made of potato peelings.

The prisoners were worked 12 hours a day repairing bombed railroads. Atrocity stories told by American correspondents have not been exaggerated according to Robinson.

After a 60 day furlough, Pfc. Robinson, will report to an army distribution center for either a discharge or reassignment.

American Battle Monuments Commission

Walter G. Robinson, Washington, Nebraska

Born 1923

Sergeant, U.S. Army

Killed in Action – Died July 10, 1950 in Korea

Sergeant Robinson was a member of the 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 10, 1950.

Enterprise 9 Aug 1951

Sgt Robinson’s Rites Are Saturday

The body of Sgt. Walter Robinson, Killed in the Korean war, arrived Wednesday and lies in state at the Bendorf Funeral Home.

Deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Robinson and was 27 years old. He is survived by his wife, the former Yvonne Hoover of Kennard and two children, Linda, 4 years and Dorothy twenty months. Also four brothers survive, William in the U.S. Navy at Tacoma, Washington and Leslie, Earl and Dale in Blair and three sisters, Mrs. Francis Rahlfs of Blair, Mrs. Helen Paulsen of Fremont and Mrs. Anna Lawther of Winslow, Nebraska and a grandmother, Mrs. Anna Robinson, of Omaha.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 11 at the Methodist church in Kennard with Rev. Homer Dickerson officiating and interment under the supervision of the Bendorf Funeral Home will be made in the Blair cemetery. The Legion will do honors to the deceased both at the church and at the cemetery.

Pilot Tribune 9 Aug 1951

Sgt. Robinson Body is Home

Blairite, Killed in Korea, Will Be Buried Here Saturday

The body of Sgt. Walter Robinson, 27, Blairite who was killed in action in Korea, arrived home last night.

The Bendorf Funeral announces that full military rites will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Kennard Methodist Church, and that interment will take place in Blair Cemetery. Members of the VFW and American Legion posts of Blair will serve as pallbearers, color guard and honorary squad to fire a graveyard salute.

Sgt. Robinson is survived by his wife, the former Yvonne Hoover of Kennard; two daughters, Linda, 4, and Dorothy, 1; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Robinson of Blair; four brothers, William, who is in the Navy and stationed at Tacoma, Wash., Leslie, Earl and Dale Robinson, all at home; and by three sisters, Mrs. Frances Rahlfs, Mrs. Neal Paulsen (Helen) of Fremont and Mrs. Roy Louther (Anna) of Winslow. Also surviving is Sgt. Robinson’s grandmother, Mrs. Anna Robinson of Omaha.

Note: Inducted into Army WW2; taken prisoner & in POW camp in Germany 3 years. After discharge in 1947, re-enlisted for Korea. Killed in Action 10 July 1950. Body returned to Blair August 1951. Find a Grave # 118387786.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~