HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY IN WORLD WAR II IN BELGIUM
b. 25 June 1924, TN – d. 26 October 1944 (gave his life WWII in Belgium). He was Salutatorian of his Senior Class in 1941 at Central High School, Cookeville, TN. William Cooper Loftis, s/o Marion Cooper Loftis & Ina Davis.
William Cooper Loftis, a Central High honor graduate called to service while studying mechanical engineering at Tennessee Polytech, is dead. The 20 year old, who had been serving in a military police unit when more troops were needed at the front, was killed in the fighting in Belgium.
William Cooper Loftis Reported Killed in Action Somewhere in Belgium:
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Loftis received a telegram November 13 from the War Department stating that their son Pfc. William Cooper Loftis, was killed in action somewhere in Belgium, October 26. No other details of his death have been learned.
William Cooper Loftis was born June 25, 1024. He attended and gradurated from Cookeville Central High School with honors in the spring of 1941. He entered Tennessee Polytechnic Institure at the beginning of the summer of 1941, where he contined through the spring term of 1943. He was called to active duty on June 19, 1943, having previously enlisted in the Regular Reserves of the United States Army, and reported for induction at Fort Oglethorpe, GA.
He majored in mechanical engineering at Tennessee tech, and made excellent grades during the entire time he attended Tech, Dean A. W. Smith stated today. He would have graduated in 1945 had be continued in school.
After receiving his basic training at Camp Fannin, Texas, he was sent to the University of Delaware, in Newark, Dela., as an Army Specialized Trainee, in Advanced Mechanical Engineering, where he remained unitl the program was discontinued April 1, 1944.
He was transferred to Camp Carson, Colo., and attached to the 104th Military Police Platoon of the 104th Infantry Division. From the time he was sent to the Port of Embarkation until his arrival somewhere in France, he was assigned to his original division but was reattached to the Military Police Platoon after his outfit arrived in France and served as Military Police until October 15, 1944.
He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
b. 25 June 1924, TN – d. 26 October 1944 (gave his life WWII in Belgium). He was Salutatorian of his Senior Class in 1941 at Central High School, Cookeville, TN. William Cooper Loftis, s/o Marion Cooper Loftis & Ina Davis.
William Cooper Loftis, a Central High honor graduate called to service while studying mechanical engineering at Tennessee Polytech, is dead. The 20 year old, who had been serving in a military police unit when more troops were needed at the front, was killed in the fighting in Belgium.
William Cooper Loftis Reported Killed in Action Somewhere in Belgium:
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Loftis received a telegram November 13 from the War Department stating that their son Pfc. William Cooper Loftis, was killed in action somewhere in Belgium, October 26. No other details of his death have been learned.
William Cooper Loftis was born June 25, 1024. He attended and gradurated from Cookeville Central High School with honors in the spring of 1941. He entered Tennessee Polytechnic Institure at the beginning of the summer of 1941, where he contined through the spring term of 1943. He was called to active duty on June 19, 1943, having previously enlisted in the Regular Reserves of the United States Army, and reported for induction at Fort Oglethorpe, GA.
He majored in mechanical engineering at Tennessee tech, and made excellent grades during the entire time he attended Tech, Dean A. W. Smith stated today. He would have graduated in 1945 had be continued in school.
After receiving his basic training at Camp Fannin, Texas, he was sent to the University of Delaware, in Newark, Dela., as an Army Specialized Trainee, in Advanced Mechanical Engineering, where he remained unitl the program was discontinued April 1, 1944.
He was transferred to Camp Carson, Colo., and attached to the 104th Military Police Platoon of the 104th Infantry Division. From the time he was sent to the Port of Embarkation until his arrival somewhere in France, he was assigned to his original division but was reattached to the Military Police Platoon after his outfit arrived in France and served as Military Police until October 15, 1944.
He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY IN WORLD WAR II IN BELGIUM
b. 25 June 1924, TN – d. 26 October 1944 (gave his life WWII in Belgium). He was Salutatorian of his Senior Class in 1941 at Central High School, Cookeville, TN. William Cooper Loftis, s/o Marion Cooper Loftis & Ina Davis.
William Cooper Loftis, a Central High honor graduate called to service while studying mechanical engineering at Tennessee Polytech, is dead. The 20 year old, who had been serving in a military police unit when more troops were needed at the front, was killed in the fighting in Belgium.
William Cooper Loftis Reported Killed in Action Somewhere in Belgium:
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Loftis received a telegram November 13 from the War Department stating that their son Pfc. William Cooper Loftis, was killed in action somewhere in Belgium, October 26. No other details of his death have been learned.
William Cooper Loftis was born June 25, 1024. He attended and gradurated from Cookeville Central High School with honors in the spring of 1941. He entered Tennessee Polytechnic Institure at the beginning of the summer of 1941, where he contined through the spring term of 1943. He was called to active duty on June 19, 1943, having previously enlisted in the Regular Reserves of the United States Army, and reported for induction at Fort Oglethorpe, GA.
He majored in mechanical engineering at Tennessee tech, and made excellent grades during the entire time he attended Tech, Dean A. W. Smith stated today. He would have graduated in 1945 had be continued in school.
After receiving his basic training at Camp Fannin, Texas, he was sent to the University of Delaware, in Newark, Dela., as an Army Specialized Trainee, in Advanced Mechanical Engineering, where he remained unitl the program was discontinued April 1, 1944.
He was transferred to Camp Carson, Colo., and attached to the 104th Military Police Platoon of the 104th Infantry Division. From the time he was sent to the Port of Embarkation until his arrival somewhere in France, he was assigned to his original division but was reattached to the Military Police Platoon after his outfit arrived in France and served as Military Police until October 15, 1944.
He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
b. 25 June 1924, TN – d. 26 October 1944 (gave his life WWII in Belgium). He was Salutatorian of his Senior Class in 1941 at Central High School, Cookeville, TN. William Cooper Loftis, s/o Marion Cooper Loftis & Ina Davis.
William Cooper Loftis, a Central High honor graduate called to service while studying mechanical engineering at Tennessee Polytech, is dead. The 20 year old, who had been serving in a military police unit when more troops were needed at the front, was killed in the fighting in Belgium.
William Cooper Loftis Reported Killed in Action Somewhere in Belgium:
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Loftis received a telegram November 13 from the War Department stating that their son Pfc. William Cooper Loftis, was killed in action somewhere in Belgium, October 26. No other details of his death have been learned.
William Cooper Loftis was born June 25, 1024. He attended and gradurated from Cookeville Central High School with honors in the spring of 1941. He entered Tennessee Polytechnic Institure at the beginning of the summer of 1941, where he contined through the spring term of 1943. He was called to active duty on June 19, 1943, having previously enlisted in the Regular Reserves of the United States Army, and reported for induction at Fort Oglethorpe, GA.
He majored in mechanical engineering at Tennessee tech, and made excellent grades during the entire time he attended Tech, Dean A. W. Smith stated today. He would have graduated in 1945 had be continued in school.
After receiving his basic training at Camp Fannin, Texas, he was sent to the University of Delaware, in Newark, Dela., as an Army Specialized Trainee, in Advanced Mechanical Engineering, where he remained unitl the program was discontinued April 1, 1944.
He was transferred to Camp Carson, Colo., and attached to the 104th Military Police Platoon of the 104th Infantry Division. From the time he was sent to the Port of Embarkation until his arrival somewhere in France, he was assigned to his original division but was reattached to the Military Police Platoon after his outfit arrived in France and served as Military Police until October 15, 1944.
He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
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