H. BECKMAN IS MISSING IN ACTION.
Akron Soldier May Be Prisoner of Germans In Big Drive.
Akron Register-Tribune: Mrs. Mary Beckman of Akron received the sad information in a telegram from the War Department at Washington, Tuesday, that her son, Pvt. Herman Beckmann, serving in the U. S. armed forces on the French-German battle front, was reported missing in action. It is the hope of both relatives and friends that it may have been the fortune of Pvt. Beckmann to have been among the many American troops captured by the Germans in the big drive of recent weeks, or, better still, that he may have been only temporarily missing and able to return to the allied lines.
Source: LeMars Globe-Post, January 8, 1945
***Further Research:
Herman Bernhard Beckman was born Sept. 26, 1915 to John Henry and Mary Gerdes Beckman. He died Aug. 12, 1971 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Akron, IA.
Herman was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge.
Source: ancestry.com
