Irwin B Lengeling

Blev 33 år.

Äktenskap med Dorothy Joan Lipinski (1919 - 2012)

Noteringar

Note: Entered the service from Illinois.
Burial:Honolulu Memorial
Hawaii, USA
Död i andra Världskriget och Pearl Harbour
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Irwin Bernard Lengeling was born on January 1, 1912, at Breda, Iowa, son of Joseph and Josephine (Olberding) Lengeling. He completed his education at the St. Bernard High School in Breda in 1931. He attended Wayne State Teachers College, Wayne, Nebraska, and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He completed a course at the Williams Institue of Mortuary Science at Kansas City, Kansas, in 1937. He was employed for several years in Kansas City as an embalmer. Then he went to Chicago, Illinois, in 1939, where he managed the Joe Maloney Funeral home.
Irwin Lengeling married Dorothy Joan Lipinski of Chicago, Illinois, on September 7, 1942. Dorothy was a daughter of Stephen and Stella (Matuszak) Lipinski. Irwin and Dorothy had one daughter, Darlene Joy Lengeling.
Irwin joined the U.S. Navy on September 21, 1942, during World War II. He was at Great Lakes Naval Hospital as Pharmacist's Mate Third Class until April 20, 1944. Irwin received extensive training in hospital care which was given at Portsmouth, Va., Naval Hospital, until September 1944, and later was assigned to the destroyer Drexler as Pharmacist's Mate First Class. He stayed at Bath, Maine, while the ship was being completed, until November 1944, when the vessel was commisioned at Boston, Massachusetts.
The crew left for a "shakedown" cruise on December 1, 1944, in the Atlantic. Lengeling spent a shore leave in Chicago from January 16 to 18 in 1945. He left the East Coast by the way of the Panama Canal to San Diego, California, where he sailed on February 13, 1945, for the Pacific arena. During his time in the navy he spent several leaves with his family at the Lengeling home in Breda.
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From the June 4, 1945, Carroll Daily Times Herald:

I.B. Lengeling, Breda Sailor, Lost In Action
Breda (THNS)--Joseph Lengeling of Breda received word Friday evening that his son, Irwin B. Lengeling, pharmacist's mate first class, USN, is reported missing in action. Prior to his assignment on a destroyer in the Pacific in January 1945, Lengeling had spent some time at Great Lakes, Ill., Norfolk, Va., Bath, Me., and had been on duty in the Atlantic.
His wife and daughter Darlene have been living in Chicago since he went into the service in September 1942.
Pharmacist's Mate Lengeling has three brothers in the service: Sgt. Vincent H. Lengeling, in Germany; PFC Delmar I. Lengeling, in Austria; and PFC Cyril F. Lengleing, at Madison, Wis.
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From the October 24, 1945, Carroll Daily Times Herald:
Lengeling Died on Warship Hit By Kamikazes
Former Breda Man, Once Reported Missing, Now Is Declared Dead
Irwin B. Lengeling, pharmacist's mate first class, U.S.N., who last June 1 was reported missing in action, has now been declared killed in action May 28, his wife in Chicago has been notified by the war department.
The former Breda man was on duty on the destroyer Drexler when hits from two Japanese Kamikaze bombers sank the vessel off Okinawa with a loss of 154 dead. Fifty-two others of the 350 aboard were wounded.
Lengeling is survived by his widow, Dorothy, and 21-month old daughter, Darlene Joy, who are making their home in Chicago; his father, Joseph Lengeling, two sisters, Imelda and Lorene, a brother, Delbert, all of Breda. Three other brothers are in the army. They are S/Sgt. Vincent Lengeling, now in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany; Pfc. Cyril Lengeling, on Palawan island in the Pacific; and Sgt. Delmar Lengeling, en route home from Salzburg, Austria. His mother, Josephine Lengeling, preceded him in death August 5, 1939.

Memorial services have been held at Our Lady of Grace church in Chicago.
In the action in which the Breda man lost his life, four Jap suicide planes attacked his ship. The first was shot down by a combat air patrol, according to information received by his family. The second got through and crashed the 2,200-ton warship amidship starting large gasoline fires. The Drexler gunners downed the third. The fourth came in, pursued by two marine pilots, who hit the enemy plane repeatedly but failed to stop it. The enemy pilot missed the Drexler on his first plunge but turned and struck causing it to roll and sink within 49 seconds.

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