PFC Joseph Martin Jordan was a paratrooper who was killed in Normandy on D-Day.
Son of Halford Pierre Jordan and Louvia Mariah Thompson.
Born in Blountsville, Stoney Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana
[sources: birth certificate (in photos), and WWII Draft Registration Card].
Joseph Martin Jordan joined Phyllis Cleo Lanning in marriage
on 28 May 1942 in Delaware County, Indiana.
About one month later, he registered for the Draft, and about 7 weeks after that,
on 21 Aug 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
He served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
[see newspaper photo]
He was awarded a Purple Heart Medal.
He was survived by his widow, age 19, their son Joseph Theodore Jordan, age 14 months, and his parents.
_ _ _
Sources:
Family Tree:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHXV-J8N
1922 Indiana Birth Certificate [see photo]
1930 Census of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHMQ-5LJ
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/117625455:6224
1940 Census of Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1RK-26R
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/56884009:2442
1941 Muncie, Indiana City Directory
1942 Delaware County, Indiana Marriages:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXT1-MF2
Muncie Evening Press 30 May 1942, p7
U.S. WWII Draft Registration Card [30 Jun 1942]:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZJ-RTDW
United States World War II Army Enlistment Record:
https://www.fold3.com/record/84197650
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMX2-LGQ
Indiana State Library WWII Servicemen Database:
https://www.statelib.lib.in.us/wwii/wwii_display.asp?ID=17960
Muncie Evening Press 14 Nov 1942, p16 [see photo]
U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files:
https://www.fold3.com/record/704235213
U.S. Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil
[see photo]
Obituary: The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana), 24 June 1944, p12 [see photo]
World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel, 1946
https://www.fold3.com/image/310762942
U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
https://www.fold3.com/image/712944250
American Battle Monuments Commission:
https://www.fold3.com/record/529909789
World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
Fold3 Memorial pages: [see links below].
Son of Halford Pierre Jordan and Louvia Mariah Thompson.
Born in Blountsville, Stoney Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana
[sources: birth certificate (in photos), and WWII Draft Registration Card].
Joseph Martin Jordan joined Phyllis Cleo Lanning in marriage
on 28 May 1942 in Delaware County, Indiana.
About one month later, he registered for the Draft, and about 7 weeks after that,
on 21 Aug 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
He served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
[see newspaper photo]
He was awarded a Purple Heart Medal.
He was survived by his widow, age 19, their son Joseph Theodore Jordan, age 14 months, and his parents.
_ _ _
Sources:
Family Tree:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHXV-J8N
1922 Indiana Birth Certificate [see photo]
1930 Census of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHMQ-5LJ
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/117625455:6224
1940 Census of Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1RK-26R
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/56884009:2442
1941 Muncie, Indiana City Directory
1942 Delaware County, Indiana Marriages:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXT1-MF2
Muncie Evening Press 30 May 1942, p7
U.S. WWII Draft Registration Card [30 Jun 1942]:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZJ-RTDW
United States World War II Army Enlistment Record:
https://www.fold3.com/record/84197650
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMX2-LGQ
Indiana State Library WWII Servicemen Database:
https://www.statelib.lib.in.us/wwii/wwii_display.asp?ID=17960
Muncie Evening Press 14 Nov 1942, p16 [see photo]
U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files:
https://www.fold3.com/record/704235213
U.S. Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil
[see photo]
Obituary: The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana), 24 June 1944, p12 [see photo]
World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel, 1946
https://www.fold3.com/image/310762942
U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
https://www.fold3.com/image/712944250
American Battle Monuments Commission:
https://www.fold3.com/record/529909789
World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
Fold3 Memorial pages: [see links below].
PFC Joseph Martin Jordan was a paratrooper who was killed in Normandy on D-Day.
Son of Halford Pierre Jordan and Louvia Mariah Thompson.
Born in Blountsville, Stoney Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana
[sources: birth certificate (in photos), and WWII Draft Registration Card].
Joseph Martin Jordan joined Phyllis Cleo Lanning in marriage
on 28 May 1942 in Delaware County, Indiana.
About one month later, he registered for the Draft, and about 7 weeks after that,
on 21 Aug 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
He served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
[see newspaper photo]
He was awarded a Purple Heart Medal.
He was survived by his widow, age 19, their son Joseph Theodore Jordan, age 14 months, and his parents.
_ _ _
Sources:
Family Tree:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHXV-J8N
1922 Indiana Birth Certificate [see photo]
1930 Census of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHMQ-5LJ
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/117625455:6224
1940 Census of Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1RK-26R
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/56884009:2442
1941 Muncie, Indiana City Directory
1942 Delaware County, Indiana Marriages:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXT1-MF2
Muncie Evening Press 30 May 1942, p7
U.S. WWII Draft Registration Card [30 Jun 1942]:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZJ-RTDW
United States World War II Army Enlistment Record:
https://www.fold3.com/record/84197650
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMX2-LGQ
Indiana State Library WWII Servicemen Database:
https://www.statelib.lib.in.us/wwii/wwii_display.asp?ID=17960
Muncie Evening Press 14 Nov 1942, p16 [see photo]
U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files:
https://www.fold3.com/record/704235213
U.S. Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil
[see photo]
Obituary: The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana), 24 June 1944, p12 [see photo]
World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel, 1946
https://www.fold3.com/image/310762942
U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
https://www.fold3.com/image/712944250
American Battle Monuments Commission:
https://www.fold3.com/record/529909789
World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
Fold3 Memorial pages: [see links below].
Son of Halford Pierre Jordan and Louvia Mariah Thompson.
Born in Blountsville, Stoney Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana
[sources: birth certificate (in photos), and WWII Draft Registration Card].
Joseph Martin Jordan joined Phyllis Cleo Lanning in marriage
on 28 May 1942 in Delaware County, Indiana.
About one month later, he registered for the Draft, and about 7 weeks after that,
on 21 Aug 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.
He served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
[see newspaper photo]
He was awarded a Purple Heart Medal.
He was survived by his widow, age 19, their son Joseph Theodore Jordan, age 14 months, and his parents.
_ _ _
Sources:
Family Tree:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KHXV-J8N
1922 Indiana Birth Certificate [see photo]
1930 Census of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHMQ-5LJ
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/117625455:6224
1940 Census of Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1RK-26R
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/56884009:2442
1941 Muncie, Indiana City Directory
1942 Delaware County, Indiana Marriages:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXT1-MF2
Muncie Evening Press 30 May 1942, p7
U.S. WWII Draft Registration Card [30 Jun 1942]:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZJ-RTDW
United States World War II Army Enlistment Record:
https://www.fold3.com/record/84197650
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMX2-LGQ
Indiana State Library WWII Servicemen Database:
https://www.statelib.lib.in.us/wwii/wwii_display.asp?ID=17960
Muncie Evening Press 14 Nov 1942, p16 [see photo]
U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files:
https://www.fold3.com/record/704235213
U.S. Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil
[see photo]
Obituary: The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana), 24 June 1944, p12 [see photo]
World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel, 1946
https://www.fold3.com/image/310762942
U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
https://www.fold3.com/image/712944250
American Battle Monuments Commission:
https://www.fold3.com/record/529909789
World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
Fold3 Memorial pages: [see links below].
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