HOBACK Bedford T - 116 IR 29 ID

Bedford Turner HOBACK

NUMBER OF SERVICE

20363617

AGE

30 yo

DATE OF BIRTH

15 February 1914 Bedford County VIRGINIA

ETAT

VIRGINIA

FAMILY

Parents: John S HOBACK & Macey E ROBERTSON HOBACK
Siblings: Raymond, Mabel, Elsie, Rachel, Lucille & Cecil

RELIGION

Methodist

RANK

PVT

FONCTION

Infantry

JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT

Worker in a factory

DATE of ENLISTEMENT

3 february 1941 National Guard Bedford VIRGINIA

COMPANY

Company A - 1^st Battalion

REGIMENT

116^th Infantry Regiment

DIVISION

29^th Infantry Division

Surnom "Blue and Gray" Devise "29^th Let's go!"

croix de guerre

DATE OF DEATH

6 june 1944

STATUS

KIA

PLACE OF DEATH

Vierville sur Mer - Omaha Beach

CEMETERY TEMPORARY

CEMETERY TEMPORARY of St LAURENT N° 3505

st laurent

Story of Temporary Cemetery

CEMETERY

NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE

Plot	Row	Grave
G	10	28

DECORATION

Purple Heart

Photo FDLM

STORY

Lucille, Sister of Bedford and Raymond

In the city of Bedford, Virginia, on Sunday, June 11, 1944, 14-year-old Lucille Hoback was preparing to go to Mass with the family.

"We then received the first telegram announcing that my brother Bedford had been killed.On Monday 12 we received the second telegram announcing that Raymond was missing, and a month later a package arrived from" somewhere in France ". a soldier told us that he had found Raymond's Bible on the beach, with name and address.

He said he did not know if Raymond was dead or alive, but anyway his family would like to get his Bible back.

On this Bible, you could see the mark of the bag strap. The book was not wet or deteriorated; he was probably wrapped in plastic. Someone told us that he had been injured, placed with others on the beach waiting to be evacuated on a ship, but that the tide might have covered them up and drowned.Raymond was pronounced dead 1 year later and his body was never found. Harold Baumgarten, who later became a doctor, told us that he had seen a bullet hit Bedford and then ricocheted him, injuring him.

Bedford Hoback, sick, to whom the military doctors offered to be repatriated to America, did not want to abandon his younger brother Raymond. He also embarks on the evening of June 4 for Omaha Beach with the others, a lifejacket around his neck, and with a life insurance

Some of those present knew little more than families. Roy Stevens was never able to find his twin brother Ray.

"I asked many of those who were next to him, I was told to go to the cemetery.

I knew then that Ray was dead.

I was so shaken that I started volunteering for anything. Colonel Canham calmed me down. "

"The war will not be won with one man, everyone will take his share"


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Brother's Bedford	Raymond Samuel HOBACK Fiche
ARMY SERIAL NUMBER	20363618
AGE	24 yo
DATE OF BIRTH	21 janvier 1920
STATE	Bedford County VIRGINIA
FAMILY	Parents: John S HOBACK & Macey E ROBERTSON HOBACK Siblings: Bedford, Mabel, Elsie, Rachel, Lucille & Cecil
RANK	Staff Sergeant
DATE of ENLISTEMENT	1941
UNIT	Company A - 1^st Battalion 116^thInfantry Regiment - 29^th Infantry Division
DATE OF DEATH	6 june 1944

Company A of the 116th Infantry Regiment 29th Infantry Division

The 75 men of Company A from the 116th Regiment 29th Division posing for this picture come from the same American village of Bedford, Virginia. Three men, extras among the missing, will be absent when this photo was taken. 19 of them, 4.23% of the population of this village, will die during the first minutes of the assault in front of Vierville-sur-mer.
Pass on the photo to see the missing of Bedford

Story of Bedford's Boy