Men & Women in Service.
Ashton Gunner Lost in Action in India Area
Ashton, la. --Special: Staff Sergeant John Hatting, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hatting of Ashton, who was a tail gunner on a Liberator bomber was killed in action November 25 in the India war theater, according to a message received by the parents from the war department.
Sergeant Hatting had been in the service since September 8, 1 942. He received his training at Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Nev., and in California and was last home on August 20, 1943, after which he left from Lincoln, Neb. for service overseas.
In his last letter, received by the parents Friday, he mentioned having been on raids. A brother, Leonard, is in the service in the southwest Pacific area.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, December 1, 1943
Iowa Honor Roll
These Iowans, like those pictured here on previous Sundays, have given their lives for their country. They were fatally wounded in combat or died in prison camps. The fourth line under each name designates the war area in which the man last served.
Source: The Des Moines Register, Sunday, March 5, 1944 (photo included)
John Herman Hatting was born Jan. 16, 1918 to Ben John and Margaret E. “Maggie” Meinen Hatting. He died Nov. 25, 1943 and is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii and memorialized at Saint Marys Cemetery, Ashton, IA.
Sgt. Hatting served with the U.S. Army Air Corps 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Group and died in the China-India-Burma Theater of Operations. He was originally buried in Barrakport Cemetery, India.
Source: ancestry.com
