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Personal info

Full name
HITES, Bennett Dale Jr
Date of birth
18 July 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska
Hometown
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37474039
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
405th Infantry Regiment,
102nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
28 February 1945
Place of death
The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 7 21

Immediate family

Members
Bennett D. Hites (father)
Edna B. (Stith) Hites (mother)
Robert Hites (brother)
Lucille E. Hites (sister)
Ralph D. Hites (brother)
Esther Hites (sister)
Ruth R. Hites (sister)

More information

102nd Ozark Division. Sgt Bennett D. Hites Jr. died of wounds sustained in Germany near the Rur river.
Sgt. Bennett Dale Hites, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett D. Hites, 6307 Leighton, and former student of the University of Nebraska, died Feb. 28 from wounds received in Germany, Feb. 23, his parents were informed from Washington Sunday morning.
A week ago the family received word that he had been seriously wounded and had been removed to a hospital.
He went overseas in October of 1944.

In 1930 he family lived in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska and a few years later moved to Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa. In 1940 they resided in Yavapai County, Arizona.

Bennett D. Hites Jr. is memorialized on a memorial in the center of Prescott, Arizona.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Erwin Derhaag, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Lincoln Evening Journal 12 & 13 March 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - Lincoln Evening Journal, Astrid van Erp