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Personal info

Full name
HOPKINS, Norman Edward
Date of birth
3 November 1906
Age
38
Place of birth
Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Rockdale, Dane County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
37052461
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
304th Infantry Regiment,
76th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Holsthum, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 13 12

Immediate family

Members
Roy E. Hopkins (father)
Clara G. (Hargraves) Hopkins (mother)
Stanley W. Hopkins (brother)
Roy E. Hopkins (brother)
Helen K. Hopkins (sister)
Amanada M. Hopkins (wife)

More information

Pfc Norman E. Hopkins graduated from Edgerton High School and was employed by the Wisconsin Telephone Co and the Wisconsin Association for the Blind.

At the time of his death his brother Roy served on Saipan and Stanley was a navigator with the Air Corps.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1910/1920/1930 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 / Wisconsin, Births and Christenings Index, 1801-1928, http://76thdivision.com

Photo source: Peter Schouteten,www.newspapers.com - The Milwaukee Journal - 3 April 1945, The Capital Times - 24 May 1946