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:
….. 1620 Marion Jasper, O. C. …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Dec. 3, 1942, p 1
More Soo Co. Boys Get New Classification
Draft Board Releases List
Reclassified Dec. 16 ….. Class 1-C ….. Marion Jasper, Orange City …..
Source: Alton Democrat Dec. 25, 1942, p 1
Marion Jasper, Ferbin Bynes, Stanley Freriks all Orange City young men are stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ark. Richard Van Voorst of Sioux Center is also there. Pvt. Marion Jasper Serv. Co. 47th A. R., APO 264, Camp Chaffee, Ark.
Source: Sioux County Capital Jan. 14, 1943, p 7
Fort Knox, Ky. Acting upon orders issued by Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, commanding general of the Armored Force, a new class of soldier students today began a special course in the Motorcycle Department of the Armored Force School.
Pfc. Marion Jasper, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Jasper, sr. of Orange City is a member of this class. Bulk of the training consists of practical work in the shops. After a few hours of lectures the men are divided into groups of three, each group under an assistant instructor. They repair cycles for all branches of the Armored Force.
Source: Sioux County Capital Apr. 29, 1943, p 7
Pvt. Marion Jasper arrived here Saturday and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Jasper, sr. He has graduated from a motorcycle maintenance course at Fort Knox, Ky. Mrs. Jasper returned with him and will remain here when Marion leaves next Thursday for Louisville, Ky. and Camp Chaffee, Ark.
Marion’s new address will be Pfc. Marion Jasper, Service Co. 47th Arm’d Regt., APO 446, Camp Chaffee, Ark.
Source: Sioux County Capital June 3, 1943, p 7
Mrs. Marion Jasper will leave Camp Chaffee, Ark. soon to live with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Sprik in Prairie View, Kans.
Source: Sioux County Capital Aug. 5, 1943, p 2
Cpl. Marion Jasper Service Co. 47th A. R. APO 446, Camp Chaffee, Ark. Pfc. Marion Jasper has been made a Corporal. He has maintenance of motorcycles and some trucks under his supervision.
Source: Sioux County Capital Aug. 12, 1943, p 7
James Jasper Sr. is in the De Bey Hospital with a blood ailment. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sprik and Mrs. Marion Jasper of Prairie View, Kansas arrived Tuesday to call on their father. Marion Jasper of Camp Chaffee, Arkansas is expected here Thursday.
Source: Sioux County Capital Sept. 16, 1943, p 8
James Jasper Sr. continues ill in the hospital. He son Tech. Corp. Marion Jasper of Camp Chaffee, Ark. has been granted an extension of leave. He will remain for 8 more days.
Source: Sioux County Capital Sept. 23, 1943, p 2
Tech. Corp. Marion Jasper left Saturday after being home for a week due to the illness of his father, Mr. James Jasper Sr. He is stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ark.
Source: Alton Democrat Sept. 30, 1943, p 8
Obituaries: James Jasper, Sr. James Jasper, 63 passed away at his home on Thursday, Nov. 11 after suffering for 2 months with a brain disease. … Surviving him besides his wife are the 17 children, …, Marion Jasper of Camp Chaffee, Ark., …
Source: Sioux County Capital Nov. 18, 1943, p 1
T/5 Marion Jasper left Wednesday after being home on an emergency furlough for the death of his father, Mr. James Jasper. He is from Camp Chaffee, Ark. and had a furlough of 13 days.
Source: Alton Democrat Nov. 25, 1943, p 6
Sgt. Marion Jasper Service Co. 716 Tank Bn., Camp Howze, Texas U. S. Army
Source: Alton Democrat Mar. 2, 1944, p 8
Cpl. Marion Jasper from Camp Howze, Texas, arrived Tuesday for a ten-day furlough with relatives and friends. Mrs. Jasper, who is staying with her parents at Prairie View, Kan., joined her husband while here.
Source: Sioux County Capital Mar. 23, 1944, p 7
Several brothers and sisters were entertained at the home of Mrs. James Jasper Sr. Friday evening as a get-together for Ray Jasper who leaves for service Thursday and as a farewell for Sgt. Marion Jasper, who leaves for Camp Howze, Texas, Friday. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. P. S. De Jong and Mr. and Mrs. Ring Jasper.
Source: Alton Democrat Mar. 30, 1944, p 6
Mrs. Marion Jasper returned from Camp Howze, Texas, where she spent some time with her husband, Tech. Sgt. Marion Jasper, who expects to leave for overseas service this week.
Source: Alton Democrat May 25. 1944, p 6
Sgt. Marion Jasper APO 5268, c/o P. M. San Francisco, Calif.
Source: Sioux County Capital June 1, 1944, p 7
Mrs. Marion Jasper received a letter from her husband Monday morning, the first one in 6 or 7 weeks. Sgt. Jasper is in New Guinea and writes that he is not in the danger zone.
Source: Sioux County Capital July 20, 1944, p 7
Marion Jasper is now T/4 and has an overseas address.
Source: Sioux County Capital July 27, 1944, p 7
Sgt. Marion Jasper has been hospitalized in New Guinea for a week. He writes that he is well again.
Source: Sioux County Capital Sept. 21, 1944, p 7
T/4 Marion Jasper, who had been hospitalized on account of malaria fever, was recently released from the hospital.
Source: Alton Democrat Oct. 12, 1944, p 8
Mrs. Marion Jasper received word from her husband that he is now in the Philippines.
Source: Sioux County Capital Feb. 8, 1945, p 1
(An ad by Cambier Motor Company)
Each Star Is An Employee In Uniform
John Wagner Cambier Wilbur Ver Steeg Neal Dykhuizen Harley Dykema Marion Jasper Al Dykstra Gerrit Kroeze George Huizenga Steve Kroeze* Richard Jerry*
*Honorably Discharged We valued your services while you were here. We are proud of the service each of you are now giving your country. With coming victory may you who are away soon be back home again to take your place among us.
Source: Sioux County Capital May 24, 1945, p 2
Pvt. Vernon Jasper is with the Infantry mopping up at Mindanao.
Sgt. Marion Jasper is also at Mindanao, and serves with a tank division.
Pfc. George Jasper is on guard duty at Okinawa.
FM 1/c Ray Jasper has completed sea-duty and will be on shore-duty until September when he receives a leave.…
The Jaspers are brothers.
Source: Sioux County Capital July 19, 1945, p 7
Sgt. Marion Jasper and Pfc. Vernon Jasper, brothers, have been fighting side by side in battle on Mindanao, unaware of the fact; Vernon upon a hill with the Infantry, handling a machine gun, and Marion down below with the Tank Artillery.
Vernon’s steel helmet saved him from meeting death by shrapnel there. They are now in rest camps 15 miles apart on Mindanao, and visit each other occasionally.
Source: Sioux County Capital July 26, 1945, p 8
Marion Jasper On Mindanao
WITH THE 716TH TANK BATTALION ON MINDANAO: 22 July 1945: The record of the 716th Tank Battalion in the Philippine Liberation Campaign is a record that Technician 4th Grade Marion Jasper of Orange City is proud of. Supporting the doughboys in Assault Landings on Luzon, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Jolo, Zamboanga Peninsula, and on Mindanao, the tankers met and defeated the best the Japs had.
Sgt. Jasper relates, “Our tanks have fought every kind of warfare in the books. We engaged the tanks of the Nip 2nd Armored Division on the roads and on the spreading rice paddies of Luzon; we took part in the street fighting at Manila, and as a part of Tank-Infantry teams we cleared the Sons of Heaven from the jungles of Mindanao. We have been continuously in combat since the 9th of January, and we moved from operation to operation so fast that often after firing the last shot at the retreating Nips at noon, we would find ourselves loading on LST’s that evening – off for another Jap held island.”
Reviewing the remarkable record of his outfit, Sgt. Jasper adds, “In six months of fighting, our battalion has killed more than 3,000 Nips, destroyed over 600 pillboxes, and much of the armor that that the Japanese army used in the defense of the island. It’s no wonder that Infantry Divisions operating in the Philippines regard the 716th ‘Wolf-Pack” so highly.
Source: Sioux County Capital Aug. 16, 1945, p 5
Vernon Schemper RM 2/c is in the States. He and S/Sgt. Reynold Van Gelder, T/4 Marion Jasper, Raymond Jasper F 1/c, Clarence Peters Y 2/c, Sgt. Raymond Wielenga, and S/Sgt. George Van Gelder, Cpl. John Te Brink, and Sgt. Howard Hop are all expected home soon.
Source: Sioux County Capital Dec. 20, 1945, p 4
HONORABLY DISCHARGED
Discharges from the armed forces of file at County Recorder Milton Van Roekel’s office since Jan. 2 are those of the following: ….. Marion Jasper, Orange City …..
Source: Alton Democrat Jan. 10, 1946, p 1
For the Jasper Brothers Relatives gave a welcome of Raymond and Marion Jasper at the Orange City Hall Thursday. Around 60 guests were present….
Raymond Jasper received his discharge at Minneapolis and Marion received his release for service at Denver.
Source: Sioux County Capital Jan. 19, 1946, p 8
Iowa, U.S., World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954, Claim Marion Jasper, SN 37466806, was born Sept. 5, 1916, at Orange City, Iowa, which was where he resided prior to entering the army on December 16, 1942, at Ft. Leonard Wood, Kansas. He served with the 74th Armored Division, 716th Tank Battalion, left for overseas duty on June 1, 1944, and returned on Dec. 17, 1945. He was honorably discharged on Dec. 29, 1945. His application for bonus pay was filed on May 13, 1949, for which he received $427.50.
Source: ancestry.com
