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Personal info

Full name
HODDER, John T
Date of birth
29 April 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Alameda County, California
Hometown
Oakland, Alameda County, California

Military service

Service number
O-1312768
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Platoon Commander
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
Bliesmengen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 4 19

Immediate family

Members
George J. Hodder (father)
Sarah H. (Bent) Hodder (mother)
Jane P. Hodder (sister)
George J. Hodder III (brother)

More information

1st Lt John T. Hodder volunteered for the Army of the United States in San Francisco, California on 19 December 1941. He attended Officers Candidate School and also trained to become a paratrooper. After a parachute jump injury, for which he was hospitalized, he was transferred to the infantry. He was sent overseas in August 1944.

He joined his unit from the 83rd Replacement Battalion on 26 November 1944 and was assigned as a platoon commander a day later.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Family Tree, www.coulthart.com/134, www.newspapers.com - Oakland Tribune

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - Oakland Tribune 1941