Louis Weichmann

[Wild Bill]

I believe that Ed Steers refers to Weichmann's name being correctly Wiechmann in Blood on the Moon. The "W" ought to be pronounced as a "V" in any case, which might explain how it came out as Weightman? A lot of Germans screw up their W's and V's when speaking English. It is one reason why American soldiers liked to use the word "wreath" for a password on the front lines in WW II. They also mess up the English TH sound pronouncing it as an English T. To put both in a word caught them on one end of the word or the other. We used "Philadelphia" in the Pacific against the Japanese. All the L's become R's in a native Japanese speaker.