My Mothers Gravesite: Leavenworth National Cemetery

After finding this site during my research to verify the burial location of George Dietrich, I submitted my mother's data into the search boxes and obtained these results.

I also submitted the information of Dianna S. Dietrich into the same search and did not obtain any results.

 

Louise E
Cole
Dec 19 1935
April 29 2018
Wife Of
CPT
Richard K 
Cole SR
USA

George Dietrich Burial Info and further research

After finding no obituary, tribute or place of burial for George J. Dietrich, I considered that as a retired US Navy veteran, he would have qualified for burial in a VA National Cemetery.  I then conducted a search using the VA "grave locator" function and found George Dietrich listed as having been interred at Butler Center Cemetery, Wolcott, NY.

I ran the same search using the VA "grave locator" using his mother's info and there was no listing. It is possible Dietrich's mother was also buried at Butler Center Cemetery since his father was provided a burial by the Veterans Administration.

I don't know how Douglas Dietrich managed to obtain a VA marker reading "WW2, Korea, Vietnam" - because his father's records do not show service in the Korea AO (1950-53) and he was not deployed to the Vietnam AO (WestPAC 1964) and retired August 16, 1965. (see below)

George Dietrich was not awarded the Korean Service Medal Ribbon; Republic of Korea War Service Medal Ribbon; Vietnam Service Medal Ribbon or Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal Ribbon.   (See below)

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/679328/memorial-search?firstName=George&lastName=Dietrich

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/679328/butler-center-cemetery

https://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/index.html

George Dietrich served with various units, shore stations and vessels on the east coast of the USA (Atlantic Fleet) from 1950-55.

https://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/vfa15/Pages/default.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-15_(U.S._Navy) (NAS Cecil Field, FL 1952-57)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gilbert_Islands (Atlantic Fleet 1952-55)

                                                       USS Gilbert Islands - CVE-107

"Following the outbreak of the Korean War in the summer of 1950, many mothballed warships were recalled to service, including Gilbert Islands which recommissioned at Philadelphia on 7 September1951Capt. Carl E. Giese in command.

 After a six-month overhaul at Boston Naval Shipyard starting on 25 November, the escort carrier joined the Atlantic Fleet on 1 August 1952. The warship sailed eight days later with a cargo of jets for Yokohama, Japan, arriving on 18 September, and returned to her new homeport of Quonset Point, R.I., on 22 October. Gilbert Islands got underway 5 January 1953 for a short training cruise to the West Indies, returning to New England waters in the spring to continue those duties through the summer and fall of that year." 

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/gilbert-islands.html

George Dietrichs' first ship assignment after WW2 was the USS Virgo (AKA-20)  June 1949. 

"She completed repairs in August 1946 and, on the 21st, began a series of voyages from the west coast to American bases in the Far East. She carried provisions and stores to bases in the Philippines, in the Marianas, in Japan, and in China. She also made side trips to Okinawa, the Admiralty Islands, and Korea. That routine lasted until the latter half of 1949"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Virgo_(AKA-20)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Midway_(CV-41)

USS Midway (CVA 41) WestPac Cruise Book 1963-64

https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv41-63/index.html

George Dietrich was aboard the Midway for only two months (May-July 1964) which could explain why he does not appear in the Cruise Book. 

USS Midway (CVA 41) WestPac Cruise Book 1965

https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/cv41-65/index.html

I could not find Dietrich in the 1965 Cruise Book

US Navy Eligibility for Vietnam Awards:

https://www.public.navy.mil/bupersnpc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/chapter5/Pages/MilitaryDecorations.aspx

REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL

For six months direct combat support or service in South Vietnam between March 1, 1961, and March 28, 1973. Also for those wounded, captured or killed in action or in the line of duty during the same period.

VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL

For service in Southwest Asia and contiguous waters or air space thereover from July 4, 1965, through March 28, 1973.

Peter Moon Promotes Douglas Dietrich's Hitler Kimono Lie

Peter Moon: aka Vince Barbarick posts false and misleading comments in reply to questions by Oriana Spratt regarding Dietrich's claim to be the son of Adolf Hitler. Moon will be hosting Dietrichs' show so Dietrich can party for Halloween.

Moon refers to a photo that surfaced in 2015.  Dietrich claimed the photo as his own in December 2018 when he began to claim he is the son of Adolf Hiter, Dietrich claims the photo was taken by his mother in 1936 (when she was 13) and that his mother obtained the semen of Hitler which she preserved and later used to inseminate herself with 30 years later in 1966.

https://www.inquisitr.com/2190166/see-weird-photo-of-adolf-hitler-in-japanese-kimono/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3133517/Is-photo-Hitler-wanted-hide-world-Bizarre-image-appears-Nazi-leader-dressed-swastika-emblazoned-Japanese-kimono.html

Adolf Hitler in Japanese Kimono

According to the Express, the image is possibly among several produced after Hitler was sworn in as chancellor in 1933. Some of the photos were emblazoned on a vast array of collectibles produced in large quantities by the regime.

The Nazis gave detailed attention to producing imposing symbols and imagery to project the power and presence of the regime in the minds of subjects, and Hitler reportedly personally supervised the management of projection of the image of the party and the Third Reich through its familiar symbols, such as the swastika.

The obsessed preoccupation of the Nazis with producing imposing imagery of the regime has helped to create and sustain a lasting market for Nazi memorabilia.

You can still get authentic Nazi memorabilia today.

But it is very unlikely that Hitler would be thrilled to know that someone has unearthed an image of him dressed in what looks like a Japanese kimono. And this is not the only embarrassing self-portrait that Hitler would have loved to keep hidden from the world. The Daily Mail recently published photos of Hitler posing in lederhosen and knee-high socks. The photos reportedly come from a Hitler “fan magazine” from the 1930s found by a British soldier in a German house after the war.

Hitler reportedly banned the photos showing him in lederhosen and knee-high socks, describing them “beneath one’s dignity.”

[Image via Express]

Has Dietrich been lying about the deaths of his parents too?

Douglas Dietrich has claimed he and his mother accompanied his father's body which was flown from San Francisco to Rochester, NY in April, 2007.  He gave details about the service and burial of his father on his radio show "Critical Omissions" August 23, 2016. At the 24:00 min mark for two minutes and again at the 28:00 min mark to 32:00 min.  He specifically mentioned "Burger Funeral Home"

https://burgerfuneralhome.com/  Hilton, NY

Dietrich claimed his father was buried in full Navy Dress Blue uniform with decorations.  That a US Navy honor guard had been scheduled to render honors but did not show up.  Also claims a grave marker provided by the VA which read "Veteran of WW2, Korea and Vietnam".

I contacted the Thomas E. Burger Funeral Home on September 7, 2016 to inquire about any records of George Dietrich in 2007 (because their website did not show any obituary or other information using their search tab).  I spoke with the office manager Kristi Forsythe who could find no cemetery listing, obituary or record of them taking custody of the body.

I have since found NO public notice or obituary in newspapers in New York or California for his parents.

I have since been unable to find a record of burial for either Dianna or George Dietrich in any cemetery listed near Wolcott, NY or Rochester, NY as Dietrich claims.

https://wayne.nygenweb.net/cemeteries.html

Wolcott: (also see listings above for Red Creek, Town of Wolcott)

Single Grave: Wolcott

Delling Cemetery: North Wolcott

Searchable Database of Delling Cemetery - 46 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Glenside Cemetery: Surnames A - He; Wolcott

Glenside Cemetery: Surnames Hi - R; Wolcott

Glenside Cemetery: Surnames S - W; Wolcott

Searchable Database of Glenside Cemetery - a.k.a. Leavenworth Cemetery.1,550 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Joiner Cemetery: Wolcott

Searchable Database of Joiner (or Wheeler) Cemetery - 18 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Kimball Farm and Old Livingston Cemeteries - Old Livingston also known as Old Livingston North Cemetery

Searchable Database of Kimball Farm Cemetery - 2 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Old Livingston South Cemetery - second cemetery on the page.

Searchable Database of Old Livingston South Cemetery - 24 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Old Livingston North Cemetery: Wolcott

Searchable Database of "Livingston Road North Cemetery" - 71 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

North Wolcott Cemetery, called Thorne: Wolcott

Searchable Database of North Wolcott Cemetery - 579 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Park Cemetery: Wolcott

Searchable Database of Park Cemetery - 24 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Phillips Cemetery: Wolcott

Searchable Databse of Phillips Cemetery - 109 burials. This is a link to another website and will open in a new window.

Roman Catholic Cemetery: Wolcott. Same as Roman Catholic Cemetery, Red Creek (see link above)

https://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Dianna-Suchin-Lin-Dietrich-91131459

https://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/George-J.-Dietrich-80123279

"The information in this obituary is based on data from the US Government's Social Security Death Index. No further information is available." 


NOTE:  Dietrich posted this tribute to his mother on September 21, 2011 six months after her death!

NOTE:  Dietrich posted no tribute to his father!

Research confirms Dietrichs' father served on USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) during World War 2

George J. Dietrich

I have always been careful to uphold the service history of Dietrich's father, George Joseph Dietrich.  But Douglas' pathological lying with regard to his father's military service is legendary.  His claim that his father served in the Navy in China with Yangtze gunboats before WW2 is untrue.  As my findings of the US Census record of 1940 show.   Douglas claims that he retired in 1966 as a Chief Petty Officer 

(E-7) are also untrue.

George J. Dietrich served honorably from June 1941 to June 1965 and retired at the rank of Petty Officer 1st Class (E-6)

I requested and received releasable information from his father's records under the FOIA  in 2017. Using this information I was able to piece together his WW2 service history.  I have posted these findings, as well as a comparison with Dietrichs' claims on my blog 

https://rkcolejr.blogspot.com/2019/01/george-dietrich-ribbons.html where I specifically noted his being awarded the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal - WWII Ribbon (2 Stars).  

The award of this medal indicated participation in two separate engagements in the Pacific Theater where his unit (ship) had participated.  A listing of those engagements and ships was not provided in the FOIA release.  George Dietrichs' Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) is currently not available, due to different release procedures applying to rules for "next of kin" and for records 62 years and older.

https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/ompf-access#information

* Records are accessioned into the National Archives, and become archival, 62 years after the service member's separation from the military. This is a rolling date; hence, the current year, 2019, minus 62 years is 1957. Records with a discharge date of 1957 or prior are archival and are open to the public. Records with a discharge date of 1958 or after are non-archival and are maintained under the Federal Records Center program. Non-archival records are subject to access restrictions

https://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel-archival


List of vessels Dietrich claims his father served before, during and after WWII:

Yangtze River Patrol gunboats  (1939-1941)
USS Franklin (CV-13)  (WWII)
USS Cowpens (CVL-25)  (WWII)
USS Essex (CV-9) (WWII)
USS Pittsburgh (CA-72)  (WWII)
USS Oriskany (CV-34)  (1966 fire)

(From NA-Form 13164, NPRC 2017)

While researching for any information regarding his grandfather, (using Newspapers.com) I thought I would take advantage of the free trial to see what I could find about his father.  I was able to find two newspaper clippings from the Rochester, NY Democrat and Chronicle dated 15 and 17 July, 1945 which mentioned George J. Dietrich and another Rochester, NY sailor as having served on the USS Pittsburgh  (CA-72). 

Both articles state that S1/c George Dietrich was a cook who had been serving aboard the USS Pittsburgh since its commissioning in November 1944.  The article stated: "George J. Dietrich is known to be as good as his word."  And was able to send his parents a cleverly disguised message in a ship magazine after the vessel had been towed to Guam.

I also found an article dated 22 July, 1934 in which Dietrichs' father is pictured with his younger brother, William E. Dietrich who later served in the US Army and was discharged as a Sgt. in 1945 "after 35 months of duty in the European Theater."

George Dietrich (then age 15) is pictured on the far left his brother is 3rd from left.  

Dietrichs' father was discharged in 1945 at the end of the war, but re-enlisted to serve a total of 24 years in the US Navy.

More Proof Douglas Dietrich Lied About Killing His Own Grandfather

Douglas Dietrich makes the claim he murdered his own grandfather in 1969 at age 3. 

His grandfather would have been 79 years old.  Dietrich described his grandfather as being ill and in need of constant care and supervision, due to having been "poisoned" for decades with chemicals during his employment at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY.  And that his grandfather was physically and sexually abusive and literally having lost his mind.

Dietrich claims he was the victim of a sexual attack in which Dietrich ripped his grandfather's penis off using his own teeth. He claims his grandfather died within 24-48 hours, but he "isn't sure of this because the police ordered them to leave New York State and return to California to avoid a mob retaliation against him by relatives and  townspeople."  "Who are all infected with chemicals and are the most racist people in the world'

I have already found his grandfather did not die until 1973, and there was evidence Dietrich never went to Wolcott, NY and was living in California since immigrating from Taiwan in 1968. But I had been unable to find an obituary or cemetery record associated with his grandfather.

Not only have I obtained the obituaries of his grandparent, but also other newspaper notices, 1917-18 Draft Registration and US Census Data from 1925 and 1940.  This information shows an entirely different picture of his grandfather and not only proves he did not die in 1969, but that he died in 1973 after living in Bradenton, Florida for a number of years following the death of his wife in 1963.

Dietrichs' grandfather relocated to Bradenton, Florida sometime after the death of his wife in 1963. A move that would have been unlikely for someone described as being physically and mentally ill. The fact that his body was prepared and transported to the Robert J. Poole funeral home  
in Rochester, NY following his death is also evidence he had been of sound mind.

There were calling hours and a Mass, followed by interment next to his wife at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, NY. https://www.holysepulchre.org/

The 1917-18 Draft Card associated with his grandfather reveals more details of his life.  I did not find evidence he was actually drafted in WW1 but he was age 26-28 and was married with one child.

It shows he was employed by Big Oak Dairy Company, a milk processing and delivery company.

The 1925 Census lists him as being a "Napping Merchant" ("Nay-ping") usually associated with textiles and furs for the making of clothing and hats).

napping

• n.
  In hat-making, a sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat-body.
• n.
  The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.
• n.
  A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.
  
  
  The 1940 Census lists him as employed by Eastman Kodak Co. as a "Roll Coater" making 1.500.00 per year.  It also shows his two sons (one is Dietrichs' father). Dietrichs' father George was age 20 and employed part-time as a "pin-setter" at Ridge Alley's making 75.00 per year.
  
  Hardley a sign that he was "forced to work for Eastman Kodak and fled to the US Navy" as Dietrich claims.
  
  I also found that Dietrichs' cousin, age 22, and a Vietnam Combat Veteran was killed in a car crash in July 1970.

WH Dietrich Obituary 1973

Viola Dietrich Obituary 1963

1925 Census

Death of Dietrichs' cousin 1970

 1917-18 Draft Registration WH Dietrich

1940 Census

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle December 23, 1961

Douglas Dietrich: The U.N. "Battle Flag" Lie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Honour_Flag

The United Nations Honour Flag (also termed the United Nations Flag, the Honour Flag, or the Four Freedoms Flag, with alternate spelling "Honor" also used) was a flag symbolizing the Allies of World War II and their goal of world peace. It was designed in October 1942 by Brooks Harding (who was inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech of January 1941), and it had some degree of use as a flag from 13 June 1943 to c. 1948 to represent the "United Nations" in the sense of the January 1942 Declaration by United Nations. However, it was never an official flag of the United Nations as an organization (which was founded in 1945, and adopted a different Flag of the United Nations in 1946).

The "Four Freedoms flag" or "United Nations Honor Flag", influenced by Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, and intended to symbolize the WW2 Allies and their goals, as set down in the Atlantic Charter and the Declaration by United Nations. This flag was designed by Brooks Harding in October 1942, and saw some use from 1943 to ca. 1948. It was sometimes called the "United Nations flag", but was never an official organizational flag of the post-war United Nations.

The Four Freedoms Flag, or United Nations Honor Flag, is displayed with the Stars and Stripes in this 1943 photo. Its four bars symbolize freedom of speech, of worship, from want and from fear. (John Collier/Library of Congress)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had urged Americans to fly the flags of each country in what were called the United Nations. This wasn’t today’s international body, but the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China and those countries that had lined up behind them to fight the Axis powers. The list eventually grew to include 47 countries, and supporting players ranged from important military allies such as Canada and Australia to tiny Haiti and Ethiopia. That was far too many flags to fit on anyone’s pole.

It was rather simple: four pillars, bright red on a field of white. But the simplicity made it memorable and underscored its symbolic power. The four vertical bars represented the “Four Freedoms” that FDR had outlined in a 1941 address: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear.

Harding scrambled to have the flag made. He enlisted a Washington seamstress named Sue Siady to worked overtime to sew what was being called the United Nations Honor Flag or the Four Freedoms Flag. It was first formally displayed in Washington on June 14, 1943, Flag Day. A week later, it was raised at Dumbarton Oaks, the Georgetown estate where, a year later, the seeds of today’s United Nations were planted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/heres-the-inside-story-on-the-most-famous-flag-youve-never-heard-of/2016/06/13/4948f956-3173-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html

Proposed United Nations Flag

Dietrich holding "Artifact from Roswell Crash"