Bio: Wehrman, Arno L. (Military 1943)

Contact: betty@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wehrman

----Sources: Scrapbook of Bertha and Caroline (Wehrmann) Volk 1930-1950’s

GREAT LAKES, ILL… Arno Lawrence Wehrman, 19, son of Mr. Otto Henry Wehrman, Rural Route 2, Greenwood, Wisconsin, has donned the Navy blue of a sailor and is undergoing “boot” training at the U.S. Naval Training Station here, the world’s largest. Upon completing recruit training he will be given a nine-day leave, after which he will be assigned to a service school for further training to learn a specialized Navy trade or be sent to active duty with the fleet or at a shore station.

Recruits are given thorough instruction in the fundamentals of seamanship and Naval procedure and customs. They are physically hardened through participation in the Navy’s vigorous physical conditioning program. They also take a series of aptitude tests to determine what type of work they will be best qualified for in the Navy.