Born in Millstadt, Illinois to Reverend Paul Wendt and Wilhelmine Thowe, he was appointed in 1929 from the state of Wisconsin to the United States Naval Academy, where he rowed on the Navy crew team and was captain of varsity oarsmen in his final year.
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Headquartered in London, England, Wendt was responsible for all U.S. naval operations in Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal | George Wendt | Waldemar Rezmer | Jana Wendt | Waldemar Haffkine | Waldemar | Guenter Wendt | Wendt & Kühn | Waldemar Kaempffert | Waldemar Bonsels | Shirley Waldemar Baker | Prince Waldemar of Schaumburg-Lippe | Oscar Wendt | Major Waldemar Fydrych | Julia Bracken Wendt | Hans Hinrich Wendt |
Wendt was born in Itzehoe, a small town in Holstein, then a Danish province, son of Joachim Matthias Wendt and his wife Christina, née Schlichting.
She secured a position as a graduate student in English at Radcliffe College (now part of Harvard University) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after receiving her B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1928.