Redding Family Has Five In Army - WWII

THOMPSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/1/2009 at 16:55:28

Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
World War II - 1944

REDDING FAMILY HAS FIVE IN ARMY
Five sons of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. THOMPSON who were reared and attended school here [Redding] are in the Army. Cpl. Howard, military police, is in Italy. After service three years in the Army previoulsy, he enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor. Between "hitches" he had been in the oil business at Eagleville, Missouri.

PFC Russell, with the 5th Army in Italy, enlisted in June, 1942. His wife lives at Blackfoot, Idaho.

Staff Sgt. Kenneth THOMPSON, infantry, entered the Army in the summer of 1942 and is at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. His wife lives near there.

PFC Homer THOMPSON, Camp Barkley, Texas, entered the service in July, 1944, after graduating from Redding High School and college and taught three years at Barnes City. He was working in Cedar Rapids war plant when inducted. His wife and three children live at Wyoming, Iowa.

PVT. Duane, who entered the service a month after Homer, is in the European war zone.

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MSgt. Kenneth Ivan THOMPSON
U.S. Army, World War II & Korean War
born December 13, 1915
died May 22, 1990
interment Greenlawn Cemetery, Afton, Union County, Iowa

THOMPSON Brothers, WWII
 

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