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Personal info

Full name
HOORMAN, Bernard R
Date of birth
3 August 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Sault, Chippewa County, Michigan
Hometown
Saint Marys, Auglauze County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
6910870
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
2nd Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Amanvillers, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 15 27

Immediate family

Members
Ferdinand Hoorman (father)
Theresa A. Hoorman (mother)

More information

S/Sgt Bernard R. Hoorman worked in a company who produced scientific apparatus before he joined the Regular Army in Napoleon, Ohio on 7 March 1939.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.ancestry.com – 1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil 1942-1949 / Ohio Birth Index

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