Grave marker for Herman E.
Hampton in Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Richmond, (Henrico
county), VA.
Herman enlisted in the
Army at Richmond, VA on 1 April 1941. His arrival in the 508th is
not recorded in avaivable Moring Reports but he does appear in an
Unnumbered Memo issued by Service Company on 14 July 1944 recording his
transfer to Company A.
His discharge document
details that he sailed to the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre on 8 April 1941,
returning on 4 May 1943. The document also states that he was in
the campaign "Island of Oahu", i.e. during invasion of Pearl Harbor on
Oahu.
Following a brief period
in the U.S., perhaps attending jump school which the discharge states
was four weeks in duration but with no date indicated, he then set sail
for the ETO on 30 May 1944, arriving on 6 June 1944.
He was wounded in action
on 2 October 1944 in Germany* and evacuated to a field hospital.
On 12 May 1945, he was
discharged with certificate of disability, by the separation center at
Ashford General Hospital, Greenbriar, WV
*Pvt Hampton was a member
of the Lt. Rex Combs stick that was dropped across the border near
Wyler, Germany rather than on DZ T, in Holland.. |