Family Profile: Edwin 'Epp' Martini's Military Service

by Diana (Vaughn) Martini

Edwin Joseph Martini

Date of induction: January 22, 1944 (he was drafted at age 32, married with a five-year-old daughter at the time)

Date of entry into active service: February 12, 1944 (military assignment)

• 4 ½ months PVT (basic training, anti-aircraft, artillery (521)

• Private First Class, in the European theater of operations for 18 months

• Member of the 886th Ordnance Heavy Auto Maintenance Co., driving a 2.5 ton truck hauling supplies, equipment, and personnel and performing repairs and maintenance on vehicles

Discharge: Army of the United States honorable discharge given at Separation Center – Camp Atterbury, Indiana on April 18, 1946

Medals, decorations and citations: 

• Battles and Campaigns/Central Europe

• American Theater Ribbon

• EAME theater Ribbon with one bronze star, lapel button

• Good Conduct Medal

• WWII Victory Medal (issued October 8, 1947)

Epp was married to Cecilia Spille and had four children: Virginia, Edwin Jr., Diana, and Dale.