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3 unusual facts about Walter Heiman


Walter Heiman

Walter J. Heiman (Essen, Germany, March 12, 1901 – University City, Missouri, United States, March 18, 2007) was a Jewish American man who at the time of his death had become one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War.

In the 1950s, they moved to Olivette, Missouri, where he and Trude continued raising their two children.

He was sent to an air base in Hanover for flight training, but the war ended before he finished training.



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