December Draft Call Sets Record
The following named registrants have been ordered to report for Army examination on Dec. 8th. If they are found qualified for army service they will return for a week’s furlough before being called for active duty:
… S-2772 Lloyd Edwin Kots, Maurice …
Source: Sioux County Capital Dec. 3, 1942, p 1
Dean Oggel, Jake Vander Griend, Lloyd Kots, Calrence Warntjes, and Renald Bruinsma are some of the local boys who expect to leave on Wednesday and Friday for Des Moines to be inducted into the army.
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 17, 1942, p 3
Classification Of 200 Sioux County Men
BOARD PUBLISHES DETAILED MINUTES
Minutes of the local Sioux County Board meeting on December 16, 1942, relating the classification of the following men: … Class 1-S: … Lloyd Edwin Kots, Maurice …
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 24, 1942, p 1 & 6
Following is the address of Lloyd Kots who was recently inducted into the army. Pvt. Lloyd E. Kots, Co. C. 18 Bn., A.F.R.T.C., Fort Knox, Ky.
Source: Sioux County Capital Dec. 31, 1942, p 7
A baby boy was born to Pvt. and Mrs. Lloyd Kots Wednesday, Feb. 3. The baby weighed seven pounds and fourteen ounces and has been named Larry Lloyd. Mother and babe are in an Orange City hospital.
The father is stationed at Fort Knox, Ky. and spent a few days with his wife and son, returning on Monday.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 11, 1943, p 10
Pvt. Kots has been transferred from Ft. Knox, Ky. to Camp Campbell, Ky.
Source: Sioux County Capital Apr. 8, 1943, p 7
Pvt. Lloyd E. Kots, Service Co. 20th Arm’d Div. APO 444, Camp Campbell, Ky.
Source: Sioux County Capital April 15, 1943, p 7
Pvt. Lloyd Kots arrived home last Wednesday from Camp Campbell, Ky. to spend a week here. He left Wednesday accompanied by Mrs. Kots and baby who plan to make their home near the camp.
Source: Sioux Center News June 17, 1943, p 2
Mrs. Lloyd Kots and baby returned here Monday evening. She had accompanied her husband to Kentucky but was unable to find suitable living quarters so returned to make her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Boone.
Source: Sioux County Capital June 24, 1943, p 8
Pvt. Lloyd E. Kots Hq. Co. 20th A.D., 65th A.I. Bn. Camp Campbell, Ky.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 7, 1943, p 10
Pvt. Lloyd Kots arrived home last week for a 10-day furlough, which he spent with his wife and baby, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kots.
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 30, 1943, p 8
Church News … Larry Lloyd, son of Pvt. and Mrs. Lloyd Kots, was baptized.
Source: Sioux County Capital Jan 6, 1944, p 3
Pvt. Lloyd Kots left Tuesday evening for Camp Campbell, Ky.
Source: Sioux County Capital Jan 6, 1944, p 7
Lloyd Kots has been promoted to Private First Class (Pfc.). His address is: Pfc. Lloyd Kots A.F.F. Co. C 20th A.D. 65th AI BN, APO 44 Camp Campbell, Ky.
Source: Sioux County Capital Jan. 20, 1944, p 7
Mrs. Lorraine Kots left Thursday for Camp Campbell, Ky. to visit her husband, Pfc. Lloyd Kots.
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 16, 1944, p 7
Mrs. Lloyd Kots arrived home Wednesday evening from Camp Campbell, Ky., where she spent three weeks with her husband, Pfc. Lloyd Kots.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 20, 1944, p 8
Lloyd Kots new address now is: Pfc. Lloyd Kots, Inf. Co. F. APO 15305, c/o Postmaster New York City, N.Y.
Source: Sioux Center News May 11, 1944, p 8
Wounded in Action
Mrs. Lorraine Kots received a cablegram from the War Department Sunday advising her that her husband, Pfc. Lloyd Kots has been seriously wounded in action in France. Lloyd has been in the infantry. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kots.
Source: Sioux County Capital Aug. 17, 1944, p 8
Maurice Soldier Wounded In France (photo)
Mrs. Lloyd Kots received word from her husband Pfc. Lloyd Kots that he has been wounded in action in both his legs, his neck, and right hand. On Saturday she received a telegram from the War Department stating that he was seriously wounded, however it is encouraging to note that he was able to write a letter himself.
Lloyd is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kots of Maurice and has been on the front in France for two weeks and is now in a hospital in England. Here is the hospital address of Pfc. Lloyd E. Kots: Hospitalized Central Postal Directory, Dept. of Patients, 4170 US Army Hospital, APO 460, c/o Postmaster, New York City, N. Y.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 24, 1944, p 1
Mrs. Lloyd Kots has received the Purple Heart Award from her husband, Pfc. Lloyd Kots, who was wounded in action in France. Lloyd has recovered from his wounds.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 26, 1944, p 12
Maurice Youth Wounded 2nd Time (photo) PFC. LLOYD KOTS
Lloyd Kots, son of Henry Kots of Maurice, has been seriously wounded in action in Germany on Dec. 14. This is the second time he has been seriously wounded. The first time was July 27 when he received leg, neck, and hand wounds and he was in the hospital for two months. How long he was in combat since then is not known.
His parents received a letter from Lloyd on Tuesday morning which he wrote himself and in which he stated that he had been wounded and was in a hospital somewhere in France.
They received the official notice from the government on Wednesday, Jan. 3, and it stated he was now hospitalized in England. The nature of his wounds is not known. His address is: Pfc. Lloyd Kots, Dept. of Patients, U.S. Army Hosp. Plant 4112, APO 315, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Source:
Sioux Center News Jan. 11, 1945, p 1
LLOYD KOTS IS WOUNDED AGAIN
Maurice Soldier In London Hospital
Mrs. Lloyd Kots and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kots have received word from Lloyd that he has been wounded again in action in Germany and is now in a London hospital. He states that his wounds are not as severe as those received last summer, when he was awarded the purple heart, but consist of shrapnel in his chest and lungs. He was wounded Dec. 14.
Source: Lemars Globe Post Jan. 11, 1945, p 2
Mrs. Lloyd Kots has informed us that her husband, Pfc. Lloyd Kots was not wounded in the chest as was erroneously reported last week, but the extent of his wounds the second time have not been ascertained. He writes that he has been able to be up and around, and it is hoped that he will be well soon.
Source: Sioux County Capital Jan. 18, 1945, p 2
1st Base Air Depot, Warrington, England – V.E. day found Pfc Lloyd E. Kots of Maurice, Iowa on the job, helping to ready more combat planes and equipment for immediate action wherever they might be needed.
Pfc. Kots, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kots of Maurice, and husband of Mrs. Evelyn Lorraine Kots, Maurice, is one of the crack Air Service Command team who pitched in to back up the air assaults that helped knock Germany out of the war. Commanding their battle backing efforts, Brigadier General Morris Berman, Commanding General of the Base Air Depot Area, Air Service Command, declared: “These soldiers of the Base Air Depot have, since their work began, dispatched 415,000 tons of Air Corps supplies, assembled and modified 12,000 combat planes, and repaired or overhauled more than 30,000 aircraft engines.” “Every soldier, whatever his job, contributed materially to the magnificent, final result. I commend them, and I know that whatever their next task, they will fulfill it with credit to themselves and their country.”
Pfc. Kots has been overseas since May 1944, and joined the Army in Dec. 1942. He attended Maurice public school.
Source: Sioux Center News June 14, 1945, p 2
Lloyd Kots, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kots of Maurice, is now repairing plane motors at a base air depot in England. Lloyd has been wounded twice, and has been overseas since May 1944. He left Maurice for duty December 18, 1942.
Source: Sioux County Capital June 21, 1945, p 1
Pfc. Lloyd Kots arrived home Monday afternoon from the European Theatre, after spending almost three years in the Army. He has his discharge, and is at present with his wife and baby and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kots.
Source: Sioux County Capital Dec. 6, 1945, p 6
Draft Board … 1-C Discharged …, Lloyd E. Kots, …
Source: Sioux County Capital Dec. 13, 1945, p 1
HONORABLY DISCHARGED
Sioux County service men (and woman) discharged from Dec. 3rd to 11th as shown on the records of County Recorder Milton Van Roekel and including one WAVE, are as follows: … Lloyd E. Kots, Maurice …
Source: Alton Democrat Dec. 13, 1945, p 1
Iowa, U.S., World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954, Claim Number 83213
Lloyd Edwin Kots was born April 23, 1920, at Maurice, Iowa, which was where he was residing prior to entering the army on December 16, 1942, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He served in the 20th Armored Division, Co. L, 330th Reg’t., 83rd Div., left for overseas duty on May 12, 1944, returned on Nov. 28, 1945, and was honorably discharged on Dec. 2, 1945. His application for bonus pay was filed on May 12, 1949, for which he received $427.50. Source: Ancestry.com
