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Personal info

Full name
HULL, Dwight Arthald
Date of birth
3 June 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Taintor, Mahaska County, Iowa
Hometown
Mahaska County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37664401
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
401st Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 October 1944
Place of death
The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 1 1

Immediate family

Members
Arthald G. Hull (father)
Lena V. (White) Hull (mother)
Lois B. Hull (sister)
Glynn D. Hull (brother)
Dawn A. Hull (twin sister)
Marilyn L. Hull (sister)

More information

Dwight A. Hull enlisted at Camp Dodge, Iowa on 6 March 1943 and was sent overseas on 3 September 1943.

Pfc Hull is remembered at the Forest Cemetery in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa with a memorial marker.

On one of the photos he poses with his twin sister.

Source of information: Jac Engels, Terry Hirsch, Enlistment Record at National Archives, ABMC, Find A Grave, Census Us 1930 / Fold3, ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - WWII Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries, Family Search

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Carl Nollen, Jaap Vermeer, Family Search