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Personal info

Full name
GOODMAN, Floyd Osmond
Date of birth
3 July 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Canby, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota
Hometown
Los Angeles, California

Military service

Service number
19174290
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 February 1945
Place of death
Bergstein, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 8 8

Immediate family

Members
Lovell O. Goodman (father)
Media E. (Carlson) Goodman (mother)
Leroy E. Goodman (brother)
Arnold L. Goodman (brother)
Edith M. Goodman (sister)
Howard D. Goodman (brother)
Marilyn F. Goodman (sister)
Anna E. Goodman (sister)
Paul E. Goodman (brother)
Walter L. Goodman (brother)
Lefonda (Rogers) Goodman (wife)
Kathleen Goodman (daughter)

More information

Cpl Floyd O. Goodman attended Washington Junior High School and Muir Tech High School and was employed at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach.

He volunteered for the Army of the United States in Los Angeles on 22 November 1942. He was sent overseas in December 1943, a few days after his daughter was born and he never saw.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans,Linda Goodman, NARA, www.wwiimemorial.com, WW2 Airborne, www.ancestry.com - Goodman Family Tree

Photo source: Jac Engels, Goodman Family Tree, Pasadena Star News 24 March 1945