Anton Hohertz (47354291)
Suggested edit: Army Service No. (ASN): 38635548
Please update this soldier's Army Service Number (ASN, aka "serial number") in the Bio Information section.
Contributor: James Durham (46994633) • [email protected]
Died from wounds received on May 22, 1945 from hostile action on Okinawa Anton served with the 307th infantry, 77th Division as a PFC in World War II.
In September of 1944, Anton was called into the Army. He went to Fort Hood for training and was able to come home for Christmas. This was the last time that we saw Anton and Uncle Herbert. They were both sent overseas. Anton was sent to Hawaii, then on to Okinawa. On June 22, 1945. the war department sent a telegram stating that Anton was slightly wounded on May 13 but they did not know when he was released, Our instructions were to keep writing him at the same address. On June 26, 1945 another telegram was sent from the war department stating that Anton was seriously wounded on May 22, 1945, We prayed for him
constantly and my family wrote to him almost daily.
On Memorial Day, Cecil Partin, who had gone to the service on the same day that Anton had, was walking around in the cemetery in Okinawa and found Anton's grave, He wrote to his father and told him what he had found.
He said that he did not remember how many times he wrote but somehow the letter got through without being censored or cut up. His Father told Daddy what Cecil had found.
Daddy in turn contacted the Red Cross here and the Red Cross in turn contacted Cecil in Okinawa. Anton had died on May 27. 1945 at the age of nineteen. We were not officially notified of his death until August.
The letters mailed to him from the early part of April through July were returned to us and marked "deceased". I know it was very lonely for him not to have had any mail from his family for the last six weeks of his life.
In his letters to us, he stated that he read his testament every chance he got and that he prayed that the Lord would see him through the war.
We had a double Memorial Services at the Zion Luthern Church for Anton and Our first cousin. Edward Rost who lost his life in Europe. Later, both loved ones' remains were sent back and we had double funerals for them. They were buried at the Zion Lutheran Cemetery, side by side.
Written by Mildred Hohertz Peters VIA Lynda Miles
Anton Hohertz (47354291)
Suggested edit: Army Service No. (ASN): 38635548
Please update this soldier's Army Service Number (ASN, aka "serial number") in the Bio Information section.
Contributor: James Durham (46994633) • [email protected]
Died from wounds received on May 22, 1945 from hostile action on Okinawa Anton served with the 307th infantry, 77th Division as a PFC in World War II.
In September of 1944, Anton was called into the Army. He went to Fort Hood for training and was able to come home for Christmas. This was the last time that we saw Anton and Uncle Herbert. They were both sent overseas. Anton was sent to Hawaii, then on to Okinawa. On June 22, 1945. the war department sent a telegram stating that Anton was slightly wounded on May 13 but they did not know when he was released, Our instructions were to keep writing him at the same address. On June 26, 1945 another telegram was sent from the war department stating that Anton was seriously wounded on May 22, 1945, We prayed for him
constantly and my family wrote to him almost daily.
On Memorial Day, Cecil Partin, who had gone to the service on the same day that Anton had, was walking around in the cemetery in Okinawa and found Anton's grave, He wrote to his father and told him what he had found.
He said that he did not remember how many times he wrote but somehow the letter got through without being censored or cut up. His Father told Daddy what Cecil had found.
Daddy in turn contacted the Red Cross here and the Red Cross in turn contacted Cecil in Okinawa. Anton had died on May 27. 1945 at the age of nineteen. We were not officially notified of his death until August.
The letters mailed to him from the early part of April through July were returned to us and marked "deceased". I know it was very lonely for him not to have had any mail from his family for the last six weeks of his life.
In his letters to us, he stated that he read his testament every chance he got and that he prayed that the Lord would see him through the war.
We had a double Memorial Services at the Zion Luthern Church for Anton and Our first cousin. Edward Rost who lost his life in Europe. Later, both loved ones' remains were sent back and we had double funerals for them. They were buried at the Zion Lutheran Cemetery, side by side.
Written by Mildred Hohertz Peters VIA Lynda Miles
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