DRAFT BOARD MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 17 (continued from Page 1)
….. On motion, the following registrants were transferred from tentative 1-A and placed in class 1-A subject to call: ….. John Hoogland, Sioux Center …..
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 25, 1943, p 10
Draft Board Minutes
MINUTES OF THE SIOUX COUNTY LOCAL BOARD MEETING OF MARCH 17, 1943 ….. Class 1-C (Induction) ….. John Hoogland, Sioux Center …..
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 25, 1943, p 2
Pvt. John Hoogland, Co. 1, 36th A. R., APO 258, c.o. Postmaster, North Camp Polk, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 1, 1943, p 10
In Army Hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Lammert Hoogland received word from their son, Pvt. John Hoogland stating that he is in the hospital. Sunday, March 28 he was taken to the hospital by ambulance and is still there. He writes he maybe has to stay there 2 weeks to a month.
The first few days he has had a fever as high as 105. He does not have fever at present and writes that arthritis and colitis which bothered him while still at home, were the main reasons.
He would like to have letters as he does not see his friends or relatives there. His address is: Pvt. John Hoogland, Station Hospital, Ward 13, Camp Polk, La.
Source: Sioux Center News April 8, 1943, p 8
There is a slight change in the address of Pvt. John Hoogland. First Platoon, Co. 1, 36th A.R., APO 258, North Camp Polk, Louisiana.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 22, 1943, p 10
North Camp Polk, La. July 7, 1943
Dear Friends: I thought that it was about time that I wrote a letter that could go in the paper. I should have written before, but I just couldn’t get to it the way it seems. I am fine and have nothing to kick about. It gets kinda hot here and that’s the only thing I don’t like about being here. Otherwise its O.K. and we get plenty to eat. I get the Sioux Center News every Monday except this week I got it today (Wednesday). I read it thru and thru and really enjoy reading it, especially the Sermonettes and Soldier column.
I met most of the boys that came up here with me, Gerald Bosch and Johnny Visser are just a few barracks away from me and I talk to Johnnie quite a bit. I just finished going to radio school and now I am a radio operator in a medium tank. I drove tank for about 6 weeks and then I went to radio school. I also had some code. These tanks are just the thing I wanted to drive and now they put me on one as a radio operator. But what the army wants, goes and we don’t have anything to say about it.
Tomorrow we go to Texas to fire the .75 mm gun, but I don’t get to fire it, although I wished I could. We radio operators will maybe get to do it later sometime, I hope.
Well I ain’t got no more news so I better close for now because its nearly time for lights out. So long. As ever, Pvt. John Hoogland
P.S. Correct address, for anyone wishing to write me I will answer all letters set to me: Pvt. John Hoogland 37475928 Co. I 1st Platoon 36th A. R. APO 258 North Camp Polk, La.
Source: Sioux Center News July 15, 1943, p 2
At Camp Polk
Left to right: Pvt. Donald VerDoorn and Pvt. John Hoogland
These two boys are buddies in the U. S. Army, having entered the service together in February 1943 and bee together ever since. Pvt. Hoogland, son of Lambert Hoogland is a radio tank operator. Pvt. VerDoorn’s home is in Hospers. Their address is: Maint. Co., 80th A.R., APO 258, North Camp Polk, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 19, 1943, p 1
Sept. 21, 1943 Dear Ed and Marie:
Just a few lines to let you know that my address is changed so you can send the newspaper without delay. Pvt. John Hoogland 37475928 Co. C, 18th Tank Bn. APO 258 North Camp Polk, La. Thanks. As ever, Pvt. Johnnie Hoogland
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 30, 1943, p 2
Pvt. John Hoogland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lammert Hoogland, surprised his parents by arriving home Wednesday on a fifteen-day furlough, his first since he entered the service eight months ago. John likes the army fine, is an assistant gunner on a medium tank.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 11, 1943, p 10
The young people of the Protestant Reformed Church enjoyed a get-together at the church last Monday evening which was held in honor of one of their members Pvt. John Hoogland who is home on furlough. The evening was spent playing various games and a lunch was served.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 25, 1943, p 10
Pvt. John Hoogland is in the hospital at South Camp Polk, La. The nature of his illness in unknown. John will probably have to have his tonsils removed. His address is: Pvt. John Hoogland Station Hospital, Ward 25 South Camp Polk, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 6, 1944, p 8
Here is the latest address of John Hoogland. John has been in the hospital for some time but is well enough again to go back to camp. Pvt. John Hoogland Co. C. 18th Tank Bn. APO 258 North Camp Polk, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 20, 1944, p 2
Jan. 21, 1944 Dear friends: It has been quite a while since I wrote you last so I better do it now. First of all I want to inform you of my address (I was in the hospital for 37 days and now I’m back to duty). My present address is: Pvt. John Hoogland 37475928 Co. ‘C’ 18th Tk. Bn., APO 258 North Camp Polk, La.
The reason why I was in the hospital because I received some severe burns caused by iodine on a skin infection. I was supposed to go back a week ago and have my tonsils removed but if they want to take them out they better come and get me. I’m not so anxious to be there.
It is now 7 A. M. and we don’t start working till 8. Until then we just hang around the barracks or sleep or anything to pass the time away. Most of the boys are sleeping and I can’t blame them because at 8 A. M. we start G.I. scrubbing the barrack floors and wash windows and anything that can be washed because we are leaving here about the 29th of this month.
After the first of Feb. my address will be: Pvt. John Hoogland 37475928 Co. C 18th Tk. Bn. APO 258, c/o Postmaster Shreveport, La. Be sure not to address letters and papers to that address till after Feb. 1. We are going to start maneuvers then and we leave this camp. We are going to have part of the maneuvers in La. but I don’t know where we will wind up.
Concerning the Sioux Center News, I have received one paper in the last 5 weeks. Where they go to I don’t know. Some of them are marked De Ridder, La. and other places around here. Well I better close and I want to thank everybody for the very nice cards and presents I received while in the hospital.
Must close for now and will write later when I get a little more time. As ever, Pvt. Johnnie
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 27, 1944, p 2
New Address Pvt. John Hoogland 37475928 Co. C 18th Tk. Bn. APO 258, c/o Postmaster Shreveport, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 3, 1944, p 12
Pvt. John Hoogland, 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lammert Hoogland, is at present on maneuvers in Louisiana. In a letter his parents received last week he thought he would need to go across in the future but he wrote he might get a furlough before he would go across. He enjoys the army very well.
He entered the service in March, 1943. His address is: Pvt. John Hoogland 37475928 Co. C 18th Tk. Bn. APO 258, c/o Postmaster Shreveport, La. He enjoys letters, but at present is too busy with his maneuvers to answer them.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 24, 1944, p 2
Pvt. John Hoogland now has an overseas address which can be had by calling either his parents or the News office.
Source: Sioux Center News May 25, 1944, p 2
Pvt. John Hoogland has a change of address. He is with the Arm’d Div. now and has recently been moved from England to France. Anyone writing to John may obtain his complete address from the News Office.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 7, 1944, p 2
Pvt. John Hoogland has a change of address. Call either his parents or the News for it. Johnnie is still in France and had not seen action the 23rd of August as yet. One thing he complains about is the paper shortage the boys are having over there. He hasn’t received the News for several months, so his brother is sending it to him First Class now.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 7, 1944, p 8
Pvt. John Hoogland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lammert Hoogland is at the present time in the hospital at Paris while ill due to rheumatism and a throat infection. ….. Pvt. John Hoogland 37475928, APO 887, c/o Postmaster, New York, New York has a change of address. He is now in a hospital in Paris as he has a foot disease. His new address may be obtained either from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lammert Hoogland or the News Office.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 11, 1945, p 9
Pvt. John Hoogland, son of Lambert Hoogland, who has been in the hospital for the past several weeks is now out of the hospital. He has a change of address on file at the News Office.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 1, 1945, p 12
Pvt. John Hoogland, son of L. Hoogland, has a new overseas address available at the News Office.
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 8, 1945, p 8
Pvt. John Hoogland, 37475928, has a new address available at the News Office.
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 22, 1945, p 2
In Frankfort Germany (photo) PFC. JOHN HOOGLAND
Pfc. John Hoogland, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Hoogland, has finally been heard from after almost five weeks. He did not state why he had not written, but had been moved and is now stationed in Frankfort, Germany. He wrote he did not know whether he would be coming to the states or not.
John has been in the army 28 months and has been overseas almost 14 months. He enjoys letters and here is his complete address: Pfc. John Hoogland 37475928 Co. “C”, 68th Tk. Bn. APO 256, c/o Postmaster New York City, New York
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 2, 1945, p 2
HURT IN ACCIDENT
Cpl. John Hoogland informed his fiancée, Miss Tracy Ennema that he had been hurt in a jeep which tipped over, that he and his officer were riding in. His eyes, shoulders and legs were bruised quite badly but is able to be up and around. He had also been bitten by a dog which caused infection to set in. He also wrote he had boils under his arm.
Johnnie is still in Germany, but said he would be home for Christmas. His address is: Cpl. John Hoogland 37475928, Co. C. 15th Tk Bn., APO 403, c/o Postmaster, New York, New York.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 1, 1945, p 2
DISCHARGED
CPL. JOHN HOOGLAND
Cpl. John Hoogland, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Hoogland arrived at the home of his parents Saturday morning, Jan. 5. Johnnie had served overseas 19 months, and has been in the service for almost three years.
He had been in heavy combat and has four battle stars to his credit. He received his discharge from the army at Camp Grant, Ill. and has no immediate plans for the future except for a well-earned rest.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 10, 1946, p 10
Draft Board Minutes of January 3, 1946 ….. Discharged: ….. John Hoogland, Sioux Center …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Jan. 10, 1946, p 1
HONORABLY DISCHARGED
Discharge papers were filed at the County Recorder Van Roekel’s office the pas week by the following veterans: ….. John Hoogland, Sioux Center …..
Source: Alton Democrat Jan. 17, 1946, p 1
Iowa, U.S., World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954, Claim Number 98403
John Hoogland, SN 37475928, was born July 13, 1922, at Orange City, Iowa, and was living at Sioux Center, Iowa prior to entering the army on March 19, 1943, at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He served in Co. C 68th Tank Bn., 6th Armored Division, departed for foreign service on May 30, 1944, returned on December 19, 1945, and was honorably discharged on January 4, 1946. His application for bonus pay was filed on May 20, 1949, for which he received $407.50.
Source: ancestry.com
