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Personal info

Full name
BARNHART, John Harrison
Date of birth
1 June 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Kansas
Hometown
Reno County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
37236468
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Platoon Sergeant
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
354th Infantry Regiment,
89th Infantry Division,
Heavy Weapons Platoon
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 April 1945
Place of death
Fortha, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 14 13

Immediate family

Members
James H. Barnhart (father)
Flora B. (Rowe) Barnhart (mother)
Trena Barnhart (sister)
Floyd Barnhart (brother)
Virginia V. Barnhart (sister)
James H. Barnhart (brother)
Joseph H. Barnhart (brother)
Irene L. (Gritten) Barnhart (wife)
Carl E. Barnhart (son)
Barney J. Barnhart (son)
Orville C. Barnhart (son)
Sylvia Barnhart (daughter)

More information

T/Sgt John H. Barnhart was a carpenter.

He was out in the field in Thal, Germany, reconnoitering for a spot to set up his machine guns. Someone warned him to take cover. "Those bastards will never get me," Barnhart called back. An instant later a round from a burp gun hit him between the eyes.

Members of his division are said to have called him sergeant "spit and polish."

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Melissa Barnhart, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.89infdivww2.org, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Melissa Barnhart