William P. Reckeweg (1916-1945)

William Reckeweg was born in Audubon, New Jersey in September 1916. He attended high school there, graduating in 1933; he then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1937. While at Dickinson he was an active student: a football, soccer, and baseball player, and a member of the Glee Club and Sigma Chi fraternity.

After graduation, Reckeweg became employed as an insurance agent. However, by February 1941, he had enlisted in the United States Army and had been sent to Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania for training. He completed officer candidate school at Fort Benning, Georgia in August 1942; by August 1943, he was a captain. He applied for active duty and became the commander of Company C, 357th Infantry, 90th Division, just prior to the D-Day landings. He was wounded in early July in Normandy and spent six weeks in a hospital in England. William Reckeweg was killed in action on February 1, 1945, in northern Luxembourg, when shell fragments struck his company command post as his unit was digging in on newly-won high ground.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).