28 SIOUX COUNTY MEN ARE DRAFTED
Twenty-eight men were listed by the Sioux county draft board in call #29, which will leave soon for induction into the army. The men are: … Clarence J. Mol of Sioux Center (387) …
Source: Hawarden Independent April 23, 1942, p 1
Three Local Men Leave For Army Duty Today
Arie Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Art Oliver of Hull, Clarence Mol, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hannes Mol of Sioux Center, Bert Dykhuizen, son of Mrs. J. Dykhuizen of Sioux Center leave today for army duty. Arie has been employed at the De Ruyter Hardware store, Clarence worked at the Wandscheer Mfg. Co. and Bert has been employed at the Mouw’s garage.
Source: Sioux Center News April 30, 1942, p 8
Pvt. Clarence J. Mol, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mol living in Sioux Center, is now on maneuvers at Leesville, Louisiana. He has been stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas. His new address is: Pvt. C. J. Mol, Serial No. 37193831 (U.S. Army), Hq. Co., 155th Infantry, 31st Div., c.o. Postmaster, Leesville, Louisiana.
Source: Sioux Center News July 30, 1942, p 8
Pvt. Clarence J. Mol, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mol of Sioux Center has a slight change in address: Pvt. Clarence J. Mol, U. S. Army, Serial No. 37193831, Hdq. Co., 1st Bn., 155th Inf., APO 31, c.o. Postmaster, Leesville, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 13, 1942, p 6
Pvt. C. Mol in South Carolina
Pvt. Clarence J. Mol, son of Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Mol of Sioux Center notified his parents this week that he had been transferred from Leesville, Louisiana to Fort Jackson, South Carolina. His new address is: Pvt. Clarence J. Mol, U.S. Army, Serial No. 37193831, 35th Ordinance Co., Ft. Jackson, S. Carolina.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 1, 1942, p 2
Home From South Carolina
Pvt. Clarence J. Mol arrived home Thursday on furlough till this past Wednesday. He is the son of Johannes Mol, has been in the army since last April. This is his first furlough.
Clarence is in the Ordnance Service section, does mostly carpenter work, for which, he says, he is not particularly fitted. His correct address: Pvt. Clarence J. Mol 37193831 35th Ordnance Co. U. S. Army Ft. Jackson, S. C.
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 3, 1942, p 7
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PVT. CLARENCE J. MOL
U.S. Army 35th Ordnance Co. Fort Jackson, S. C.
Pvt. Clarence J. Mol is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Mol. He has been in the army for eight months. He was first stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas, then he went to Leesville, La. where they were on maneuvers. His is now stationed at Fort Jackson, So. Carolina.
Source: Sioux Center News Jan. 14, 1943, p 5
Pvt. Clarence Mol has a change of address, and his new address is as follows: Pvt. Clarence J. Mol ASN 37193831, 410th Ord. Co. (MM), Fort Jackson, S. Carolina.
Source: Sioux Center News May 13, 1943, p 8
Pvt. Clarence Mol, who is stationed at Fort Jackson came home on furlough on Saturday. Clarence is with the ordinance company and does carpenter work most of the time. He will return to Fort Jackson, S. C. on Friday of this week.
Source: Sioux Center News May 27, 1943, p 10
Pvt. Clarence Mol and Miss Jeanette Mol drove to Sioux City on Thursday morning to get their sister and brother-in-law Pvt. and Mrs. John van Holland who came home on a three-day pass from Alliance, Nebraska to visit their brother Clarence who is home on furlough from Fort Jackson, S. C.
Source: Sioux Center News June 3, 1943, p 6
Pvt. Clarence J. Mol has been transferred from Fort Jackson, S. C. to 410th Ord. M.M. Co., APO 4672, San Francisco, Calif.
Source: Sioux Center News July 29, 1943, p 8
In Australia
Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Mol received word from their son Pvt. Clarence Mol that he is now in Australia. Clarence Mol has been in the service for a year and a half and has had two furloughs, the last one being in June. Clarence has recently been sent across. Call either his parents or the News Office for his address.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 14, 1943, p 2
The APO number of Clarence J. Mol has changed to 929. The rest of his address remains the same. Clarence has moved from Australia to one of the Pacific Islands.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 25, 1943, p 12
Clarence J. Mol has recently been promoted to the rank of Cpl. The remainder of his address remains the same. Clarence has been overseas since August 1943.
Source: Sioux Center News March 2, 1944, p 2
These overseas addresses have changed recently, and we are not permitted to publish them in full. Call the News or parents of the boys for the correct and complete address. Cpl. T. Clarence J. Mol 37193831 APO 928, Unit 1, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif. …
Source: Sioux Center News May 4, 1944, p 2
Cpl/T Clarence J. Mol has a new overseas address which we cannot publish. Call either his parents or the News for it.
Source: Sioux Center News June 8, 1944, p 8
SIX LOCAL BOYS AND ARMY NURSE MEET IN NEW GUINEA Took Picture of Group
The thrill that can only come to a stranger in a strange land, was experienced by six local soldier boys and Lt. Henrietta Eppink, army nurse, when they met recently in New Guinea.
Henry Vonk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Vonk, drives a jeep and according to his letter to his folks, he gathered up four more boys from this area, including Everett Franken, Clarence Mol, Dick De Weerd and Dick Vander Hoef and they climbed into Henry’s jeep and drove over to see Everett who seems to be stationed some distance away.
Somewhere along the line they met with Lt. Henrietta Eppink who seems to have moved to New Guinea proper just recently also. She incidentally had finally succeeded in meeting with her brother-in-law, Lt. Neal Mol who is a flyer stationed in that area also. Lt. Mol brought her some oranges and apples which apparently were quite a treat, and they had a very pleasant visit together. The Eppink family had thought Henrietta was on New Guinea for some time, but according to her recent letters, she must have been stationed a short distance from there, as she said she had moved by boat to her new location.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 21, 1944, p 1
They Met In New Guinea (photo)
Left to right: Dick De Weerd, Dick Vande Hoef, Clarence Mol, Everett Franken and Henry Vonk These are the five local boys who met recently in New Guinea where all are stationed at present. They also met with Lt. Henrietta Eppink, army nurse who is now stationed there.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept 28, 1944, p 1
Cpl. Dick De Weerd of New Guinea describes reunion with local boys: Sept. 1, 1944
Dear Ed and Friends: On the 27th of August (Sunday afternoon) five hometown servicemen serving in the S.W.P. Area had a fascinating reunion. During the previous week, arrangements with one another were made to try and get that afternoon off. No unforeseen interruption seemed to take place. So, Pfc. Dick Vander Hoef, Cpl. Everett Franken, Cpl. Clarence J. Mol, Pvt. Henry Vonk and Cpl. Dick De Weerd met and had a pleasant time. As could be expected, we spoke mostly of pre-war days in Sioux Center. A close second in conversation were the bewitching occurrences we have had with the ‘sons-of-heaven’. With Everett being in the photo branch of the service, this permitted us to take a group picture. Three days followed, then each of us had in our possession the developed photos.
We have gathered from various sources that 9 Sioux Center service personnel are within an area of 100 miles in diameter; one of these being a member of the Army Nurse Corps. At one of my former stations I was fortunate enough to pay Henrietta Eppink a few social calls. We had some enlivening conversations. I understand she recently has been transferred to this area. Mention at our short reunion was made of the interesting and fascinating articles which were still being published in the news. By this paper our knowledge of home town changes is kept in trim. When we have more time we will drop you another note. Thanks for the past services, we appreciate them all.
Yours in the service, Cpl. Dick De Weerd (Editor’s note: The picture he mentions was published in the News two weeks ago. Johanna Mol lending us her print.)
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 12, 1944, p 8
Cpl. T/5 Clarence J. Mol sent several packages of Japanese cigarettes, some pencils and coins from New Guinea. All the packages were inspected by the censor before they reached here. The cigarettes have an odd smell not at all like tobacco as one would expect.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 26, 1944, p 12
Cpl. Clarence J. Mol, who at the present time is stationed in Manila, has a new APO number which is 70. The rest of his address remains the same.
Source: Sioux Center News August 30, 1945, p 8
Cpl. Clarence J. Mol arrived in the states on Oct. 10 after serving in the south Pacific for two years. He is at the present time stationed at Seattle, Wash. and is expected to come home in the near future.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 18, 1945, p 10
Clarence J. Mol Discharged (photo)
CPL. T/5 CLARENCE J. MOL arrived here last Thursday from Fort Logan, Colorado having received his honorable discharge from the U. S. Army after three and a half years of service.
He served in Ordnance, doing mostly general construction work in Australia, New Guinea (Hollandia) and the Philippines. He was stationed the longest time at Hollandia for some twenty months and it was there he met four other Sioux County boys frequently. They were Dick Vander Hoef, Dick DeWeerd, Henry Vonk and Everett Franken. Clarence said he was fortunate to have suffered from no tropical diseases during his sojourn there. He says he feels that he has acquired some worthwhile experience during his life in the army, though there were plenty of things he would just as soon have missed. “There’s no place like America” is his answer to “What do you think of the tropics?” which is practically unanimous as far as servicemen are concerned.
After a couple of weeks’ vacation as a civilian Clarence expects to return to his job at the Wandscheer factory where he was employed before he entered the service.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 25, 1945, p 1
Servicemen Discharged
Servicemen who have filed discharges in the County Recorder’s office since October 17 include: … Clarence J. Mol, Sioux Center …
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 25, 1945, p 1
Iowa, U.S., World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954
Clarence J. Mol, service # 37193831, was born January 1, 1907 at Nunspeet, Netherlands, and was living in Sioux Center, Iowa prior to entering the army on May 1, 1942, at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. He served with Co. E 155th Regt. 31st Division and 410th Ordnance Motor Maintenance Co., left for overseas service on August 8, 1943, returned on October 9, 1945, and was honorably discharged on October 17, 1945. His application for bonus pay was filed on May 20, 1949, for which he received $500.00.
Source: ancestry.com
