Paul
M. Hofmann graduated from Sutton High School in the spring of 1942 where he was
an impressive student and representative of the school and the community.
Hofmann
held three minor offices in the Future Farmers of America of Nebraska before being
elected president of the state organization for 1942-1943. He was selected to
Boys’ State and was a winner of a prestigious Union Pacific scholarship. He was
the state’s representative at the National Youth Foundation Camp at Shelby,
Michigan for the F. F. A.
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| Paul M. Hofmann - February 3, 1924 - December 15, 1944 |
He
headed off to the University of Nebraska Agricultural College where he was a
member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and was active in campus activities.
He signed up for officers’ training with the campus ROTC program but was
inducted into the armed forces on March 27, 1943 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
During
Hofmann’s early army training he was selected to attend a cadet program at the
University of Indiana and the University of Cincinnati but that program was
discontinued. He was soon at Camp Campbell, Kentucky driving tanks.
He
was assigned to the Third Army where he was believed to have been with Patton’s
tank corps at Bastogone, France. His letters home indicated he had been in
Marseilles, Lyon and Dijon France before his tank unit became engaged in action
on the western front.
Private
First Class Paul Hofmann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl F. Hofmann, became the tenth of Sutton’s sons to give his life in
World War II when he was killed in action on December 15, 1944 at the age of
20.
1 comment:
I think that Paul was my dad's first cousin. He was killed when I was a baby so I never knew him. I learned from your blog some info about him that was never mentioned at home.
Barb Maser Helwig
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