- SURNAME
Eckert
- FORENAME
Johnnie Theodore
- UNIT
3 Bn (Khaki Combat Team)
- RANK
Private
- NUMBER
38010483
- AWARD
Bronze Star
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Cimarron County, Oklahoma
born 04.06.1920 Texas (see note from Grand-daughter)
farm hand in civilian life
grammar school education
single without dependents upon enlistment
18.1.1941 enlisted Santa Fe, New Mexico
14 Infantry (Company H)
Merrills Marauders
475 Infantry Regiment (Companies L,C and A) (Corporal) 1945
10.08.1945 discharged
married Bobby Kathryn Bobbitt (1929-2003)
2 daughters Sandra & Linda
1 son Alan Wesley Eckert (1950-1985)
died 23.12.1952 (Aged 34) due Nephritis
Liberty Cemetery, Carson County, Texas
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