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Full name
DE HARTOG, Hendrik Theodore
Date of birth
3 June 1918
Age
27
Place of birth
Waupun, Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
unknown
Rank
Civilian
Function
OSS Agent
Unit
Office of Strategic Services
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 June 1945
Place of death
Bremen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
L 21 2

Immediate family

Members
John M. De Hartog (father)
Wilhelmina (Jansen) De Hartog (mother)
John M. De Hartog (brother)
Hermina T. De Hartog (sister)
Wilhelmina J. De Hartog (sister)
Hendrina De Hartog (sister)
William H. De Hartog (brother)
Grace H. De Hartog (sister)
Herbert A. De Hartog (brother)
Jacob De Hartog (brother)
Mary Jane (Lavin) de Hartog (wife)

More information

Hendrik T. De Hartog graduated from Waupun High School and from the Foreign Relations Department of the University of Wisconsin. He worked for a life insurance company beofre he enlisted on 3 January 1945.

He was appointed to the OSS in January 1945 and was sent overseas a month later.

He was killed in a bomb blast at the U.S. militairy headquarters in Bremen, Germany. Fourteen others died in the blast, which also injured 78 people. This was one of two mysterious explosions at the headquarters. Probably these explosions were caused by bombs with time fuses. The four-story building was the former headquarters of the SS.

Both his parents and the first five children were born in the Netherlands.

His brother Jacob served in the Pacific.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Social Security Death Index / 1930 Census / U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, The Wisconsin Alumnus Feb 1945, Mary Jane Lavin de Hartog Conlin obituary

Photo source: Fred Munckhof, www.ancestry.com - University of Wisconsin, 1940, 1941