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Personal info

Full name
HARTMAN, Clyde Kenneth
Date of birth
3 April 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Nanticoke County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Shickshinny, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33928139
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
314th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bischwiller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 34 54

Immediate family

Members
Cletus J. Hartman (father)
Edna E. (Miller) Hartman (mother)
Grace E. Hartman (sister)
Hazel M. (Clarke) Hartman (wife)
Kenneth C. Hartman (son)
Carole L. Hartman (daughter)

More information

Pfc Clyde K. Hartman attended high school for two years and was a welder before he enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 27 March 1944. He was sent overseas on 20 August 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his head.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application File WWII / Andrews Smith Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 314th Infantry Regiment, www.findagrave.com - Coleman, www.newspapers.com - Standard Speaker, 10 February 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy / Jaap Vermeer