Pennsylvania department of Veteran Affairs Record of
Burial for Charles G. Hartman and grave marker in Cressona Cemetery,
Cressona (Schuylkill county), Pennsylvania.
Charles registered for the
draft ca. 1940 and enlisted in the Army at enlisted at New Cumberland,
PA on 18 February 1942. [Note that the record has a handwritten
update in the top margin stating he had bee discharged on 7 November
1945.]
While home on leave, he
married Grace E. Witmer [1918–2006] in Pottsville (Schuylkill), PA.
T5 Hartman was transferred
from the 17th Airborne Division to Company G, 508th PIR on 21 August
1945.
He was discharged on 7
November 1945 at the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, PA.
On
2 February 1950, Charles submitted this Pennsylvania
WWII Veterans Bonus application.
He was credited with 22 months of domestic duty and 23
months of foreign service. He was awarded a full bonus of $500.
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