Elmer Hartman

ELMER HARTMAN
	On 19 January 1950, Elmer submitted this Pennsylvania WWII Veterans Bonus application. He was credited with 30 months of domestic duty and 5 months of foreign service. He was awarded a bonus of $375. The application indicates that on 1 November 1944, Pvt Hartman had returned to the U.S., presumably for additional treatment in a military hospital. Pvt Hartman was discharged from the Army on 8 February 1946.
Grave marker for Elmer Hartman in South Perkasie Evangelical Cemetery, Perkasie (Bucks county), Pennsylvania. Elmer enlisted in the Army at Allentown, PA on 4 March 1943. Pvt Hartman was transferred from Hq 82d Airborne Division to Company C 508th PIR on 23 July 44. On 26 August 1944, Pvt Hartman was sent to the 184th General Hospital, Mansfield, England. On 11 September 1944, he was transferred from that hospital to Service Company, 508th PIR but there is no further record of him in the 508th thereafter.