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SSgt Raymond S. Hoback Veteran

Birth: 21 Jan 1920
Bedford County, Virginia, USA
Death: 6 Jun 1944 (aged 24)
Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Monument: Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Show Map GPS-Latitude: 49.3591652, Longitude: -0.85272
Plot: Garden of the Missing ~ Army-Air Forces Tablet 22 Line 08
Memorial ID: 56645658 View Source

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Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

Maintained by: K Phelps
Originally Created by: War Graves
Added: Aug 8, 2010
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56645658/raymond_s-hoback: accessed ), memorial page for SSgt Raymond S. Hoback (21 Jan 1920–6 Jun 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56645658, citing Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; Maintained by K Phelps (contributor 47694812).

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© Picture ~ Copyright Michael V. Drachman 2011-2012-2013 > 2014 >forward ~ All rights reserved

Raymond S. Hoback
Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service ID # 20363618
116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Virginia
Enlisted: Bedford, Virginia, February 3, 1941
Rank @ ToE: Corporal
Branch: Infantry
Component: National Guard (Officers, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Residence: Bedford County, Virginia
Nativity: Virginia
Marital Status: Single w/o dependents
Occupation: Farm Hands, General Farms
Born: 1918, Virginia
Died: June 6, 1944 (D-Day)
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Garden of the Missing ~ Army-Air Forces Tablet 22 Line 08
Site GPS: 49.359166,-0.85272
Normandy American Cemetery
Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Citations and Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

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© Picture ~ Copyright Michael V. Drachman 2011-2012-2013 > 2014 > All rights reserved

The entrance to the Garden of the Missing. To the right are the Army ~ Air Forces tablets, to the left are the Navy and Coast Guard tablets.

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© Picture ~ Copyright Michael V. Drachman 2011-2012-2013 > 2014 > All rights reserved

Tablets of the Missing. To the right are the Army ~ Air Forces tablets, to the left are the Navy and Coast Guard tablets.

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Raymond S. Hoback
Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 20363618
116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
Entered the Service from: Virginia
Died: 6-Jun-44
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Normandy American Cemetery
Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart

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Hoback family. Left to right: Raymond, Elsie, Mabel, Bedford, Rachel, Lucille, Macie, Cecil, and John.

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Thank you from Alicia Locks age 7

"Never forget my buddies" - Hal Baumgarten Company A/B 116th Infantry, 29th Division.

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Bible of Raymonds found on Omaha beach. His parents gave him the bible in 1938. This is all that was found of Raymond.

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Never forgotten

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