Transferred.
ATLANTIC—Pvt. Hubert K. Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Porter, of Cumberland, arrived Tuesday to spend five days while enroute from Camp Hood, Tex., to Fort George Meade, Md. He is assigned to an anti-tank unit.
Source: Council Bluffs Nonpareil, January 5, 1945
Hubert Kenneth Porter was born Feb. 2, 1924 to Hugh Ambrose and Anna Catherine Wilhemina Tibken Porter. He died Jan. 19, 2012 and is buried in Franklin Lutheran Cemetery, Wiota, IA.
Sgt. Porter served in World War II with the U.S. Army at the Battle of the Bulge and earned the Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon with 2 Bronze Stars, 3 Overseas Service Bars, and Army of Occupation Medal. He saw combat action in the European Theater with the First Army’s 69th Infantry Division. He was a member of an anti-tank company in the 273rd Regiment which was the spearhead for the First Army in Germany The unit was the first American unit to meet the Soviet Red Army on the Elbe River near Torgau, Germany April 25, 1945.
Source: ancestry.com
