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Personal info

Full name
HARDY, James Howard
Date of birth
12 January 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Jackson, Mississippi
Hometown
Pontotoc County, Mississippi

Military service

Service number
O-390713
Rank
Captain
Function
unknown
Unit
M Company,
3rd Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 December 1944
Place of death
St. Vith, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 13 13

Immediate family

Members
Adolphus Hardy (father)
Mamie L. Hardy (mother)
Sarah Hardy (sister)
Margaret (Lane) Hardy (wife)
Diana (Pollard) Hardy (daughter)

More information

Secretary of War Stimson singled out the 106th for special commendation on its "gallant stand" against the German drive, which cost the division reportedly 8663 dead, wounded and missing, more than half its strength.

Per Diane Hardy Pollard, his daughter:
"For our family however this wasn't the worst news ... My father had been killed during fierce fighting near St Vith, a small Belgian town that had been annexed by the Germans. Official sources pinpoint the date of his death on December 21, 1944 ... however soldiers who served with him, have written me that he was killed by artillery fire "tree bursts" on December 19, 1944 ... He was only 25 years young ..."

Capt James H. Hardy was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery at Foy, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, http://www.in-honored-glory.info/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Diana Pollard