Private First Class HENRY CLIFTON HOOTER 38391613 KIA

 

Private First Class HENRY CLIFTON HOOTER 38391613 KIA, U. S. Army. He served through the entire campaign on Leyte without being wounded and was in the line for more than one hundred days. On Okinawa he was in the front line engaged in hard fighting for eleven days before being killed in action. Private First Class Hooter was born September 14, 1924. He attended school at his home in Enterprise, Louisiana, and at Northeast Junior College of Louisiana State University LSU and NYA Trade School in Pineville. Entering the service in Shreveport, on May 26, 1943, at the age of 18. He went from Camp Beauregard to Camp Wolters, Texas, for basic training and then to Wayne University, Detroit; Camp White in Oregon; Camp Callan in California; Camp San Luis Obispo; Camp Beal, and Camp Stoneman, California. From the Hawaiian Islands where he underwent extensive jungle training, he went to Leyte and to Okinawa Shima. He served in Company I 383rd Infantry Regiment 96th Division. He receiving the Purple Heart Medal (PHM) for being killed in Action, on April 11, 1945, at the age of 20. The award was presented posthumously after his death at Okinawa Shima.

Source:

1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF LOUISIANA – LOUISIANA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE – 1946

2- https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=all&tf=F&q=HENRY+C+HOOTER&bc=sd&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=7342951

3- His Grave stone at Catahoula Baptist Church Cemetery Catahoula Parish Louisiana.