Alvin A. Hartman, S 1/c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hartman of Merrill, is now stationed at the Navy yard at Bremerton, Washington.
Source: The Globe-Post, May 18, 1944
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Alvin Armond “Shorty” Hartman was born Mar. 13, 1924 to Walter Calvin and Florence Margaret Robbins Hartman. He died May 23, 1993 and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Imperial, NE.
Source: ancestry.com