Today in Wheeling History: February 5—Corporal William Adrian Stahl, a Wheeling Central Catholic student and member of the U.S. Army's elite MARS Task Force, died of combat wounds at a hospital in Ledo, India (1945).
William Adrian Stahl was born on March 4, 1925, in Wheeling to Joseph Adolph Stahl and Helen Margaret Vogler Stahl. He attended St. Alphonsus parochial school and Wheeling Central Catholic High School, where he was remembered as one of twenty-two students or graduates killed in World War II. Before entering military service, William worked as an employee of the News Publishing Company.
Inducted into the U.S. Army on August 5, 1943, at age eighteen, Corporal Stahl received training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; and Camp Carson, Colorado. He was deployed overseas in November 1944 and assigned to the MARS Task Force, a specialized long-range penetration unit operating in the challenging China-Burma-India Theater. The nineteen-year-old soldier died from wounds received in action on February 5, 1945, at a hospital in Ledo, India. His body was temporarily interred at Kalaikunda, India.
In June 1948, Corporal Stahl's remains were returned to Wheeling. Following funeral services at Altmeyer Funeral Home and a High Mass of Requiem at St. Alphonsus Church on June 10, he was laid to rest at Mount Calvary Cemetery. He was survived by his mother, Helen; sister Mary Margaret; brothers Joseph Jr., Sgt. Charles E., J., and Arthur T.; and paternal grandmother Mary Stahl.
To learn more: Archiving Wheeling (https://tinyurl.com/2j52zs36), Find a Grave (https://tinyurl.com/ydwdteya), CBI Theater - MARS Task (https://tinyurl.com/2hc3erv9), Wheeling Intelligencer (https://tinyurl.com/yx5m7ve3) (https://tinyurl.com/dbf6a6t8)
Photo credits: Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling WV; Archives of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, Find a Grave, Wheeling Intelligencer, Google Maps
William Adrian Stahl was born on March 4, 1925, in Wheeling to Joseph Adolph Stahl and Helen Margaret Vogler Stahl. He attended St. Alphonsus parochial school and Wheeling Central Catholic High School, where he was remembered as one of twenty-two students or graduates killed in World War II. Before entering military service, William worked as an employee of the News Publishing Company.
Inducted into the U.S. Army on August 5, 1943, at age eighteen, Corporal Stahl received training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; and Camp Carson, Colorado. He was deployed overseas in November 1944 and assigned to the MARS Task Force, a specialized long-range penetration unit operating in the challenging China-Burma-India Theater. The nineteen-year-old soldier died from wounds received in action on February 5, 1945, at a hospital in Ledo, India. His body was temporarily interred at Kalaikunda, India.
In June 1948, Corporal Stahl's remains were returned to Wheeling. Following funeral services at Altmeyer Funeral Home and a High Mass of Requiem at St. Alphonsus Church on June 10, he was laid to rest at Mount Calvary Cemetery. He was survived by his mother, Helen; sister Mary Margaret; brothers Joseph Jr., Sgt. Charles E., J., and Arthur T.; and paternal grandmother Mary Stahl.
To learn more: Archiving Wheeling (https://tinyurl.com/2j52zs36), Find a Grave (https://tinyurl.com/ydwdteya), CBI Theater - MARS Task (https://tinyurl.com/2hc3erv9), Wheeling Intelligencer (https://tinyurl.com/yx5m7ve3) (https://tinyurl.com/dbf6a6t8)
Photo credits: Ohio County Public Library Archives, Wheeling WV; Archives of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, Find a Grave, Wheeling Intelligencer, Google Maps
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